City of Salt
The City of Salt or Ir-melah is a town referred to in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. According to Josh 15:62, the town was located in the wilderness of Judah, otherwise known as the Judean Desert. It is identified by some scholars with the archaeological site of Khirbet Qumran.The toponym is occasionally transcribed in English translations of the Hebrew Bible, such as Ir-melah in the JPS Tanakh, which is a transliteration of the Hebrew ˁîr-hammelaḥ.
