Did excavators uncover this beneath deep layers of Sodom & Gomorrah -like destruction?
https://int.icej.org/news/headlines/jews-saw-pompeii-retribution-destruction-temple
[snip] Jews saw Pompeii as retribution for destruction of the Temple
Hershel Shanks, the editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review, has recently published findings indicating that Jews living in the Roman Empire in 79 AD when the southwestern Italian city of Pompeii was destroyed by a massive eruption of the Mount Vesuvius volcano, believed that it was Divine retribution for the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Roman general Titus nine years earlier. Citing archeological evidence in a paper entitled “The Destruction of Pompeii – God’s revenge?” in the July/August edition of the magazine, Shanks told the Jerusalem Post that Book 4 of the Sibylline Oracles, an ancient mystical text, includes a passage which says in part; “When a firebrand, turned away from a cleft in the earth [Vesuvius] In the land of Italy, reaches to broad heaven It will burn many cities and destroy men. Much smoking ashes will fill the great sky And showers will fall from heaven like red earth. Know then the wrath of the heavenly God.” He also points to ancient graffiti scrawled on the walls near Pompeii which includes references to “Sodom and Gomorra.” The eruption of Vesuvius “attacked the core of Roman society,” Shanks concluded. “There’s very good reason to conclude there was a perceived connection and in the eyes of some, God was clearly at work.” [/snip]
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