Talk:Jericho synagogue

"Shalom al-Yisrael" ??
The name here should be reverted to the original page name, "Shalom Al Yisrael Synagogue". "Al Yisrael" is not the eqivalent of "Al-Aksa" (e.g.). In Hebrew, "al" means "on" or "over", and is a separate word. In Arabic, "al-" is "the", part of the referenced word (not separate). --Sreifa (talk) 05:10, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Messy sentence - can we improve it?
Can we do something better than "Tourists and Jews began visiting the site regularly for prayers"? It seems to imply that the two are mutually exclusive - there are no Jewish tourists? - and it makes prayer part of the visit, which might or might not be the case, either for secular Jews or for non-Jewish tourists ... or maybe they were prayerful members of other religions who wanted to pray there? Drawing the mental Venn diagrams is doing my head in ... is there not a more elegant way of wording this? Cheers DBaK (talk) 14:35, 18 January 2014 (UTC)


 * "People visit the site for tourism and pilgrimages"? AnonMoos (talk) 02:04, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Name
The phrase "Peace on Israel" is not the specific and unique element of this ancient floor mosaic. The fact that it is in Jericho is specific and unique. Encyclopedic article names have their rules: ideally they consist of a term for the general category (here "synagogue"), and one for the specific, if possible unique characteristic (here Jericho").

The inscription "Peace on Israel" on Jewish and Samaritan synagogue floors from the Byzantine and, it seems, the rare Early Muslim period synagogues, was a commonplace. There are examples from Huseifa, the 6th-century Samaritan prayer house from the Eretz Museum grounds, Ein Gedi, and the stolen 7th-century (Early Muslim period) mosaic found in Ramallah and probably coming from the Shuafat-Ramallah area. I guess there are more, these are showing up in a brief search.

There is no other synagogue IN JERICHO. The controversial theory of Ehud Netzer regarding the possible Wadi Qelt synagogue is about a structure, well, in Wadi Qelt, outside Jericho, at Tulul Abu el-Alayiq; not, like this one, inside the city.

Academic use: check for instance the excavator who discovered and first named it, D. Baramki (1938), and THE author for the topic, Rachel Hachlili, in her 2008 classic published by BRILL, "Ancient Mosaic Pavements: Themes, Issues, and Trends".

So a) synagogue, b) from Jericho, c) "Jericho synagogue" long in use and widely used in academic literature (and guide books, by the way), with no realistic competition for the title. Q.E.D. Cheers, Arminden (talk) 23:30, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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Map Description Fix
Can we change the map description to “shown within Palestine” or “shown within Israel?” A state of Palestine has never existed. A region of Palestine, which included modern day Israel and modern day Jordan, did exist. Tuvyaamiller (talk) 04:55, 1 December 2023 (UTC)