Editing Ramoth-Gilead (section)

==Location==
It has been tentatively identified with Reimun, on the northern slope of the [[Zarqa River]], about {{convert|5|mi|sp=us}} west of [[Jerash]] or Gerasa, one of the cities of the [[Decapolis]].<ref>Easton, Matthew George, ''Illustrated Bible Dictionary'' (3rd ed., 1897, London, T. Nelson & Sons) s.v. "Ramoth-Gilead".</ref>

Other possible locations include:{{citation needed|date=July 2014}}
#[[Tell er-Rumeith]], about 3 miles south of [[ar-Ramtha]], Jordan<ref>National Geographic Magazine, map ''Holy Land Today'', Dec. 1963, atlas plate 52; Pritchard, James B., ed., ''The Harper Concise Atlas of the Bible'' (1991, London, Times Books) index and passim (this book uses maps from the 1987 ''The [London] Times Atlas of the Bible''); Irvine, Stuart A., ''The Southern Border of Syria Reconstructed'', The Catholic Bible Quarterly, vol. 56, nr.1 (Jan. 1994) page 30. Several other Bible atlases locate Ramoth-Gilead in the same general vicinity without bothering to provide its current name. The precise location of the biblical site, as distinguished from more recent abandoned settlements, is not completely certain, but is probably N 32° 29′ 25″, E 35° 52′ 49″, according to a map page of the [[Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft|German Bible Society]]. [http://www.bibelwissenschaft.de/wibilex/das-bibellexikon/lexikon/sachwort/anzeigen/details/ramot-gilead/ch/b8bd2d02bd79bad85f558478f782e331/].</ref><ref>Knauf, E. A., 2001: The Mists of Ramthalon, or, How Ramoth-Gilead disappeared from the Archaeological Record. BN 110, 33–36.</ref><ref>Finkelstein, I., Lipschits, O., and Sergi, O. 2013. Tell er-Rumeith in Northern Jordan: Some Archaeological and Historical Observations. Semitica 55: 7-23.</ref>
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