Sodom and Gomorrah However, as Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed with brimstone and fire from the Lord, Lot's wife looked back at the city, and she became a pillar of salt. Major and minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible have referred to Sodom and Gomorrah to parallel their prophetic events. The New Testament also contains passages of parallels to the destruction and surrounding events that pertained to these cities and those who were involved. Later deuterocanonical texts attempt to glean additional insights about these cities of the Jordan Plain and their residents. Moses referred to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in :
The 120 Days of Sodom book into a film, "Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom" ("Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma"). The film is transposed from 18th-century France to the last days of Benito Mussolini's regime in the Republic of Salò. "Salò" is commonly listed among the most controversial films ever made. Viscount Charles de Noailles, whose wife Marie-Laure was a direct descendant of de Sade, bought the manuscript in 1929. It was inherited by their daughter Natalie, who kept it in a drawer on the family estate. She would occasionally bring it out and show it to guests, among them the writer