Talk:Jebusites

Conquest vs. Occupation Controversy
Jebusite

Using the term "conquest" makes a judgment that King David actually "conquered" Jerusalem, rather than co-opting its management, as the Jebusite Hypothesis (in this Article) suggests. For that reason, "occupation" is a more neutral word and seems preferable, although perhaps still other words might be better (and if so, please suggest).

The lack of any information (even Biblical) asserting massacre of the inhabitants suggests peaceful occupation (or even making an offer that the management couldn't refuse--such as steak dinners forever for Zadoq/Araunah and his descendants in exchange for nominal substitution of "Yahweh" for "El Elyon" as alternative to massacre). Therefore, I propose to change "conquest" to "occupation" in a week or so if no contrary consensus emerges.

PraeceptorIP (talk) 18:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

based on the research that I read, it seems to me that David and the Jebusite have a good relationship. Why else would the Jebusites hand over mount Moriah? --Michal 16:46, 28 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Please see WP:NOR - our analysis is immaterial, we go by what reliable sources say. Dougweller (talk) 09:22, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

The bible often present contradicting accounts. I think that Wiki should present all 'the theories' rather than the popular version. Please read 1 Chronicles 21 vs:22-23. David asked the governor of the Jebusites for his land to build the Temple and the Jebusite governor gives it to him without any hesitation. This completely contradicts what is written here. I won't go into detail here but there are many reasons to doubt the popular version of conquest.--Michal 16:44, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Sources beyond the biblical
There are many, and they should be added to this article, which currently only discusses the biblical vision of the Jebusites. Archaeology has provided much information, some of which upholds and others which contradict the biblical narrative. I'll work on adding some of these to the article.  T i a m u t talk 18:05, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * First rate. I will look forward to seeing your additions soon. Please include the wall and also the two towers near Gihon. PraeceptorIP (talk) 19:01, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

ethnic origin
Tanakh: this term, which represents a complete unit of its own in Judaism, cannot possibly be used to refer to a part of the "Bible", which is essentially a Christian term, so it's better to stick to "Old Testament". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pamour (talk • contribs) 18:54, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Genetic Studies
I turned up this: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/mgsa-l/2006-March/006774.html which claims that the article, "The Origin of Palestinians and Their Genetic Relatedness With Other Mediterranean Populations" was retracted by the journal that originally published it. This article is used as the sole reference for a claim about genetic studies in the "Modern Usage" section.

I don't have access to this journal, so I can't verify either that it was the original publisher, or that it issued a retraction. And perhaps there are other genetic studies that have reached similar conclusions. But if this is really the only source, and it was retracted, then I'm thinking that, "Also modern genetic studies shows Palestinians are direct descendants of Canaanite people" should be removed from the article.

Can anyone help? Grease Bandit (talk) 20:51, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Here; Gibbons, Ann (October 30, 2000). "Jews and Arabs Share Recent Ancestry". ScienceNOW. American Academy for the Advancement of Science. Surprise, surprise, both palestinians and jews come from the same core prehistorical population... I think that statement has all the right to stay. 212.163.172.180 (talk) 17:04, 29 March 2010 (UTC)Leirus212.163.172.180 (talk) 17:04, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

If it should stay, it should take a more neutral approach, by including what you just stated, that both come from the same core prehistorical population. Augustun84 (talk) 16:08, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Biased opinions stated as facts
The lines at the end of this subsection are politically loaded and cite highly controversial references:

First of all, it is not in Wikipedias place to state a subjective analysis of the motivation of the Palestinian Authorities for teaching what they teach; for all we know, they actually do believe it's their history. The references given to back this claim are known ideological sources, and they do not provide evidence for any of the claims, only opinions. They ridicule Arafat for first claiming to be a Canaanite, and then claiming to be a Jebusite which is supposed to be a contradiction. It is not, Jebusites are considered a subgroup of Canaanites. Furthermore, how exactly would one use archeological evidence to link Palestinians to the Jebusites? There's cultural, linguistic, genetic and historical evidence in the Wikipedia article on Palestinian people (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_people) linking them to ancient inhabitants (without naming Jebusites in particular). Simply stating that there is no archaeological evidence, adds nothing but a biased point of view.

Because of this, the following lines should be removed from the Modern Use section. Or at the very least, they should be balanced with some actual evidence.

"The claim is used as an attempt to prove a connection between Palestinians and Jerusalem that predates the Muslim conquest. There is, however, no archaeological evidence linking the Arab-Palestinians of today with the Jebusites of the Canaanite period. ref name=MEQ-PJE>David Wenkel,". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.39.125.35 (talk • contribs) 15:53, 24 October 2010


 * Looks like a reliable source to me as Wenkel is writing in a peer reviewed journal. If you want to balance it, go ahead, but note that Wenkel also cites Eric Cline, another reliable source. Maybe attribute it, but it shouldn't be removed. Dougweller (talk) 09:39, 28 December 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dougweller (talk • contribs) 13:50, 7 April 2012 (UTC)


 * David Wenkel, with his "Masters degree in Christian thought" is of course not a reliable source. And MEQ did not even claim peer-review back when Wenkel's article was published, so that argument doesn't apply.  Just to be clear, since there isn't any evidence that Jebusites actually existed, there isn't any evidence that any group today is descended from them either.  (There is much stronger evidence that Palestinians and Jews share lots of their ancestry.) It is just a shame to see this material presented with such weak sources in such a biased fashion. Zerotalk 12:01, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Original research
See WP:NORN. Dougweller (talk) 09:39, 28 December 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dougweller (talk • contribs) 08:12, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Moving a question from the article to the talk page
Just found the text below in the article. Dougweller (talk) 06:46, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Why doesn't the genealogy mention that Canaanites were under the family of Cush who is identified as Ethiopian in later writing? Clearly, racial differences played a part of the conflicts of that time, i.e. 'El and his appellations were therefore Cushite in origin. [Larry West, 3/7/2013]

The Jebusites are found.
The Jebusites. They're found. They're found. Here is your proof: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130710114327.htm. Anonymous71.164.209.8 (talk) 20:32, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * It doesn't say that. It says "Because the inscription is not in Hebrew, it is likely to have been written by one of the non-Israeli residents of Jerusalem, perhaps Jebusites, who were part of the city population in the time of Kings David and Solomon." In other words, pure speculation based on no real evidence. Dougweller (talk) 20:58, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Like many other articles, they just used the biblical name for the people supposed living around then. This adds nothing to the historical evidence of Jebusites. Zerotalk 01:13, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

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Basic Hebrew issue
יבוסי given as a plural (and obviously not in construct-state)? Yeesh. Amateurish way to start. 120.148.217.45 (talk) 17:08, 18 May 2015
 * Meh. The article doesn't say it's plural grammatically, and the Bible uses the grammatically singular Yevusi all the time to refer to the Jebusites as a group. It's either always or almost always just Yevusi in the Bible, not Yevusim, even though it generally refers to more than one person. Can you think of a counter-example? Alephb (talk) 11:08, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Lack of balance, NPOV
At the present end of the article is this statement: "Archaeological excavation and records that are conclusively dated from the 'post-exilic' period consistently undermine the historical record of the Old Testament," citing the minimalist Silberman. This is not balanced. Others, such as William G. Dever, take a different position. (See, e.g., the foregoing William G. Dever WP article.) This statement is biased and should be deleted or replaced with a balanced or NPOV statement. PraeceptorIP (talk) 21:18, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

BC/BCE
A well meaning but uninformed unregistered user changed the BCE dates citations to BC. Scholarly use for Ancient Near East uniformly designates these dates before the common era as BCE, not BC. Thank you. PraeceptorIP (talk) 23:33, 20 April 2016 (UTC)


 * PraeceptorIP, thanks for your concern. In this case, there is a Wikipedia policy that covers the issue, known as MOS:ERA. To summarize: editors are free to start an article using either BC/AD or BCE/CE conventions. Once an article uses a convention, it cannot be changed without prior discussion and consensus on the talk page. In this case, that means that this article must be left in BCE form. In other articles, the policy will require sticking with BC/AD. I'd personally rather that we had a single standard across the board at Wikipedia, but those are the rules. Alephb (talk) 18:52, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

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