What is the connection between the Dead Sea and the Bible?

Answer 1

Just at the edge of the Dead Sea is where Sodom and Gommorah used to be
http://english.sdaglobal.org/evangelism/arch/sodom.htm.

12 reasons to be a Christian
1. Truth in a world full of lies
2. Hope in a world full of despair
3. Life in a world full of death
4. Love in a world full of hate
5. Forgiveness in a world full of vengeance
6. Power in a world full of weakness
7. Certainty in a world full of confusion
8. Purpose in a world full of pointlessness
9. Peace in a world full of war
10. Order in a world full of chaos
11. Beauty in a world full of ugliness
12. Right in a world full of wrong.

Answer 2

The Greeks knew the Dead Sea as "Lake Asphaltites", due to the naturally surfacing asphalt. Aristotle wrote about the remarkable waters. During the Egyptian conquest it is said that Queen Cleopatra obtained exclusive rights to build cosmetic and pharmaceutical factories in the area. Later, the Nabateans discovered the value of bitumen extracted from the Dead Sea needed by the Egyptians for embalming their mummies.

Prominent personages linked with the Dead Sea and its surroundings are Herod the Great, Jesus of Nazareth, and John the Baptist. Also in Roman times some Essenes had settled on the Dead Sea's western shore; Pliny the Elder identifies their location with the words, "on the west side of the Dead Sea, away from the coast ... [above] the town of Engeda" (Natural History, Bk 5.73); and it is therefore a hugely popular though not uncontested hypothesis today, that same Essenes are identical with the settlers at Qumran and that "the Dead Sea Scrolls" discovered during the 20th century in the nearby caves had been their own library.

King Herod the Great built/re-built several fortresses and palaces on the Western Bank of the Dead Sea. The most famous was Masada, where, in 66-70 AD, a small group of rebellious Jewish zealots held out against the might of the Roman Legion, and Machaerus where, it has been argued from the Gospel according to Luke 3:20, that John the Baptist had been imprisoned by Herod Antipas and met his death.

The remoteness of the region attracted Greek Orthodox monks since the Byzantine era. Their monasteries such as Saint George in Wadi Kelt and Mar Saba in the Judean Desert are places of pilgrimage.

In Islamic tradition, the Dead Sea was about the land in which the Prophet Lut (Lot in the Hebrew scriptures) lived. His tribe had done wrong and had therefore been given a punishment for such deeds. The punishment arrived when angels were sent down by Allah to Lut. The angels raised the land where the prophet's tribe lived and threw it back into the ground, causing the ground near the impact to cave in. Thus, the lowest land on Earth was formed because of this punishment. The sinners were destroyed and the followers were saved.

Bedouin tribes have continuously lived in this area, and more recently explorers and scientists arrived to analyze the minerals and conduct research into the unique climate. Since the 1960s, tourists from all the over world have also explored the Dead Sea region.

Answer 3

Scrolls of scriptures were found in caves near the dead sea. The area is ideal for preserving things. The scrolls helped to validate the bible as we have it today.

Answer 4

The area around the dead sea is where the people who were influencial in the formation of xtianity lived, so that is of course what the connection is. It's all just superstition, of course.

Answer 5

The following link explains the connection

http://christiananswers.net/q-abr/abr-a023.html

Answer 6

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