Talk:Danel

Two suggestions

 * Content: The article says he appears in a 14th century BCE text, but nothing about what is known or supposed of his origins. Is he considered invented at that time? Invented much earlier? Based on a real person and gradually mythified? Or is it just established that nothing is known about that? I think it should be explicited, even if as a single sentence.


 * Form: As you may know, since you are the first main contributor of this article, Wikipedia rule is that you have the right to choose/dictate the citation style used in the article (now I feel like I'm Mirandazing you ;-) That's why I'll just explain a suggested change in the format of your References section: since you use refs such as "Walton 1994" or "Day 1980", it would be easier on the reader to switch to an author-date format, such as:


 * Walton, John H. (1994). Ancient Israelite Literature in Its Cultural Context: A Survey of Parallels, "Personal Archives and Epics": Canaanite .2 (Zondervan), p. 49.

It makes it easier to find a given ref, especially when a same author starts having multiple works cited. As you may be aware, there are also the handy Cite book and Cite web templates that implement APA or Harvard. (And if you feel adventurous, you can have a look at the Harvard/MLA hybrid I used on Emir Rodríguez Monegal ;-))

But of course, the citation format is your prerogative on this article. &mdash; Komusou talk @ 17:50, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Epic of Aqhat?
The Hebrew Wiki article says that in the past this was called the Legend of Danel, but that in light of new discoveries, they now consider Aqhat to predominate and that the name was changed accordingly. Can anyone confirm? Many thanks in advance. El_C 02:23, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

The article mentions the Epic of Aqhat, which is a link to the 'Aqhat' article, which redirects to Danel, this same article. This is a little strange, was this the intention? :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.56.212.120 (talk) 18:25, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Commercial Link removed
That link to gold got removed, because it is unrelated to Danel, and constitutes abuse.

Why is this not here? "in both Ugaritic and Hebrew texts, it is correctly Danel"
Why is this not here.: "in both Ugaritic and Hebrew texts, it is correctly Danel" as shown in the article Ugaritic. Misty MH (talk) 18:56, 16 April 2020 (UTC)