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A town on the Jordan named in one verse of the Bible, Joshua 3:16 (now on these pages), as the place where the river’s water ‘rose up in one heap very far away’ while Israel crossed opposite Jericho, some thirty kilometres downstream. ⚠ The Masorah writes at Adam and reads from Adam — a ketiv/qere the two shelves split on — and the Greek Bible has no Adam at all, reading ‘as far as the region of Kiriath-jearim.’ It is generally identified with Tell ed-Damiyeh, on the east bank where the Jabbok comes in and the Damiya bridge now crosses; the modern name has kept the consonants. ⭐ The bank there is soft marl, and commentators since John Garstang have reported that it has fallen into the river and stopped it at least twice — for about sixteen hours in December 1267, on the authority of the Arab historian Nowairi, and for some twenty-one hours after the earthquake of 11 July 1927. Those reports establish that the picture in Joshua 3:16 is one the river actually makes; the text’s own claim is the timing. ⚠ Hosea 6:7’s ke-Adam averu berit, ‘like Adam they transgressed a covenant,’ is read by many as AT Adam they crossed the covenant — the same verb this chapter uses for crossing the river — which would make this town the scene of a later breach; it is a reading, not a text. Not the Adam of Genesis 2, whose name it shares.

in the text Joshua 3:16
📍 Adam — modern-day Generally identified with Tell ed-Damiyeh, east bank of the Jordan near the Jabbok confluence, Jordan
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