Amam

Amam was one of the obscure southern Negev towns of Judah, listed in Joshua 15:26 among the cities "in the south country, by the coast of Edom": "Amam, and Shema, and Moladah." The town appears only once in Scripture, in this border catalog of Judah's desert-frontier settlements between Kadesh-barnea and Beersheba. The exact location is unknown; some scholars place Amam near Tel Halif or one of the small tells south of Beersheba where Iron Age pottery and water cisterns mark seasonal Israelite occupation of the wilderness fringe.