Talk:Horvat Maon (Hebron Hills)

Why bring in Maqdisi?

 * The name "Darom" (Arabic: ad-Darum) literally means "south," but in relation to the rest of Palestine it had the general connotation of the immediate territory in and around Bayt Jibrin (Eleutheropolis), as evinced by Al-Muqaddasi.

I have removed this paragraph because:

1) What do Arabic and Maqdisi (10th century) have to do with the Late Roman-Early Byz. period? Long shot, since we have Eusebius and pre-Muslim-period rabbinic sources.

2) Can this be seen as part of the Eleutheropolis hinterland? The distance is some 30 km as the crow flies. Maybe the connotation changed somewhat betw. 7th and 10th c.?

My only problem is that I had to adopt the better (as being contemporary) explanation from the Hebron Hills art. (here) rather blindly, because the 2 refs there are sending to a Hebrew text only located by a library address, and a book which doesn't have even snippet view on Google Books. But both look carefully cited and nobody seems to have taken issue with them at the Hebron Hills art. Arminden (talk) 17:46, 8 February 2024 (UTC)