Editing Adummim (section)

==Location==
Adummim was apparently on the road between [[Jerusalem]] and [[Jericho]] in the [[Judaean desert]], today in the [[West Bank]]. It is mentioned in the Book of Joshua ({{Bibleverse||Josh.|15:7|1000|15:7}}, {{Bibleverse||Josh.|18:17|1000|18:17}}) as being "on the south side of the stream", which Matthew Easton (1897) identified with [[Wadi Kelt]], and across from [[Gilgal]] or/and [[List of minor biblical places#Geliloth|Geliloth]].<ref name="easton">{{Cite encyclopedia |year=1897 |title=Adummim |encyclopedia=Illustrated Bible Dictionary |publisher=[[Thomas Nelson (publisher)|Thomas Nelson]] |url=http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/eastons-bible-dictionary/adummim.html |access-date=10 April 2021 |last=Easton |first=Matthew George |author-link=Matthew George Easton |edition=3rd |via=Bible Study Tools}}</ref> Easton claimed that it was nearly halfway between [[Jerusalem]] and [[Jericho]], and now bears the name of Tal'at ed-Dumm.<ref name=easton/> More recently, Pekka Pitkänen (2010) has stated that "The location of Adummim is unclear."<ref name="Pitkänen">{{Cite book |last=Pitkänen |first=Pekka |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q7tvG_w6uQEC&pg=PA288 |title=Joshua |date=19 October 2010 |publisher=InterVarsity Press |isbn=978-0-8308-2506-6 |page=288}}</ref>

The "ascent of Adummim" is a very important historical road that leads up from Jericho towards Jerusalem, following the top of a ridge that forms the southern bank of Wadi Qelt and separates it from Wadi Tal'at ad-Damm.<ref name=Bolen/><ref name="Wilkinson75">{{Cite journal |last=Wilkinson |first=John |date=March 1975 |title=The Way from Jerusalem to Jericho |journal=The Biblical Archaeologist |publisher=The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The American Schools of Oriental Research |volume=38 |issue=1 |page=14 |doi=10.2307/3209407 |jstor=3209407 |s2cid=165978577}}</ref>