Landmark east of Bethel, fixing Abram's campsite (12:8) — 'the city' whose own famous story (Joshua's defeat, then conquest) is many books away. Joel Kramer, after once favoring the nearby Khirbet el-Maqatir, now finds et-Tell the better fit for Joshua's Ai — the mainstream identification used here.
📍 Ai — modern-day et-Tell, near Beitin, West Bank
🗺️ No ancient-world overlay on the shelf yet for this site — a period map
showing how the region actually looked in the biblical world gets added here as Mr. Librarian curates one,
the same way the encyclopedia's film shelf grows.
“The Problem” of Joshua's Ai...SOLVED! (preview — Ai's own story is in Joshua 7-8, far ahead of Genesis)