Talk:Judaean Desert/Archive 1

Arabic name?
I would appreciate if anyone could transliterate the Arabic name into Latin script? I sincerely think it deserves greater mention, A) seeing as it is located partly in Palestine, and B) as Arabic is a co-official language in Israel. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.148.107.55 (talk) 22:21, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

No map?
A map would be helpful - essential, even Little grape (talk) 11:32, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

I added it a while ago. Hara.ss (talk) 20:48, 25 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Bumping an old thread, but it might be helpful to modify the map a bit. Make it ever-so-slightly more zoomed in, and shade the parts of the Judaean Desert a slightly different hue that are in the undisputed territory of Israel, as you can’t tell there’s a tiny western portion that is as well, unless you enlarge and look carefully. Symmachus Auxiliarus (talk) 22:03, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Jerusalem suburb
Why not call things by its name? It’s an illegal settlement that should be mentioned, not just say that it’s a “suburb of Jerusalem “ that looks very normal and inaccurate. Moudinho1996 (talk) 12:00, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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Early Christian monasticism in the Judaean desert
It has been so far neglected as a topic. There are many individual articles on individual figures, but none on the subject as such, not even categories or ather technical means of connecting those figures I am aware of (just the century of birth or death is far too weak). There are problems of geography, as the phenomenon includes the Judaean Mountains and also monasteries in and around Jerusalem, Bethlehen and maybe other settled places; of time limits (when does "Early" end?); of inclusion in a wider context of Christianity in Late Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic Palestine; and of affiliation of individual figures, as people like Rufinius moved on. But it is a major phenomenon absolutely deserving to be treated in its own right and cross-referenced wherever possible. Arminden (talk) 12:46, 13 November 2021 (UTC)