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MODULE 4: SESSION 18: Lot Delivered From Destruction

Lot imitates his uncle’s righteous hospitality but from a compromised location. The text paints an ambivalent portrait of Lot’s character. In their sexual violence, the men of Sodom mirror and invert the illicit union of Heaven and Earth from Genesis 6. The biblical authors craft this scene as a prelude to the flood theme in the melody, with Lot’s house playing the role of the ark as the place of divinely provided refuge.