City of Adam

The City of Adam (Hebrew adam ha-ir) is a place which appears in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Joshua 3:16, where it is described as standing "beside Zarethan" on the east bank of the Jordan. There, says the biblical text, the flow of the water was arrested, and rose up "upon an heap" at the time of the Israelites' passing over.

This village includes a number of families that belong to the Abbad clan such as Ramadneh. The land was accordingly owned mainly by the Abbad tribes with land closer to the river belonging to Al Masaeed tribe whose land extends beyond the Jordan to al-Jiftlik and towards the Jericho areas.

Identification

Damiya

The classical identification is with Tell ed-Damye on the east bank of the River Jordan.^[1]

The nearby modern Jordanian village is called Damia.

References

^ Mittmann, Siegfried (1970). Beiträge zur Siedlungs- und Territorialgeschichte des nördlichen Ostjordanlandes (lit.: Contributions to the settlement and territorial history of northern Transjordan). Volume 2 of Abhandlungen, Deutscher Verein zur Erforschung Palästinas (in German). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 220. ISBN 9783447000185. ISSN 0173-1904. Retrieved 19 June 2020.

Bibliography

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Adam, the city of". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.

History of the Tribes of Jordan and Palestine, Tribes of Jordan and Palestine (Fayez A. Farda)

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[Mittmann-1] Mittmann, Siegfried (1970). Beiträge zur Siedlungs- und Territorialgeschichte des nördlichen Ostjordanlandes (lit.: Contributions to the settlement and territorial history of northern Transjordan). Volume 2 of Abhandlungen, Deutscher Verein zur Erforschung Palästinas (in German). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 220. ISBN 9783447000185. ISSN 0173-1904. Retrieved 19 June 2020.

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