Editing Adummim (section)

==Name==
The name Adummim is related to {{lang|he|אָדֹם}} {{Transliteration|he|adom}}, the Hebrew word for "red", and can be translated as "red places", which may refer to the reddish streaks found in the stone of the area.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |year=1990 |title=Adummim |encyclopedia=Anchor Bible Dictionary |last=Thompson |first=Henry O. |editor-last=Freedman |editor-first=N. |volume=1 |pages=86–87}}</ref><ref name="Bolen">{{Cite web |last=Bolen |first=Todd |date=17 March 2004 |title=Jesus' Final Journey to Jerusalem |url=https://www.jerusalemperspective.com/1402/ |access-date=30 July 2019 |website=Jerusalem Perspective |publisher=Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research}}</ref> The red-brown hills of the area on the road descending from Jerusalem to Jericho are made of iron-oxide-tinged [[limestone]].<ref name="Shulman">{{Cite news |last=Shulman |first=David Dean |author-link=David Dean Shulman |date=25 June 2018 |title=The school at Khan al-Ahmar |url=http://mondoweiss.net/2018/06/school-khan-ahmar/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625163917/http://mondoweiss.net/2018/06/school-khan-ahmar/ |archive-date=2018-06-25 |work=[[Mondoweiss]]}}</ref> The Ascent of Adummim was known as the "Ascent of Blood" by the Crusaders.<ref name=Barber/>