Talk:Kiryat Ye'arim

Article-merg
Please, someone must mergs the two entries "Kiryat Ye'arim" and "Kiriath-Jearim" Thanks! Giorgos ab1234 (talk) 07:38, 4 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Quite the opposite. It contradicts archaeological findings. Same as unidentified ancient Modi'in and modern Modi'in: just a case of revived biblical name, at unsure or slightly off location. Arminden (talk) 05:37, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

The dig is in Abu Ghosh (at the hilltop convent), and so was Kiryat Ye'arim. Not here. Now what?
Altogether, Abu Ghosh's NW hill seems to have won the race for being the (acropolis of) Kiryat Ye'arim. Much of what's written here now belongs there :) Good luck with it... Arminden (talk) 19:43, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

The article states that "There are those who believe that a nearby tell" is at the site of biblical Kiriath Jearim. What tell, the convent hill? That's in Abu Ghosh. Please clarify! Arminden (talk) 05:39, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

"History" seems completely wrong
1937 photo by Malewsky A) shows a number of then-modern buildings, which don't seem to me to be part of Abu Ghosh, and B) is titled Kiryat Ye'arim: anachronism, or was the name already used for the site in 1937?


 * "The modern community was established in 1973 [ref: book by Rebecca L. Stein] by a group of students and teachers of the American Telshe Yeshiva"

The source copied from the art. dedicated to the Telshe Yeshiva and reused here under "Name" (not online, must believe editor who introduced it), says the yeshiva had no building of its own and worked from a number of apartments between 1977-79, so an inhabited settlement of some kind must have predated the yeshiva. It also seems to contradict 1973 as the establishment year - off by 4 years.

All taken together, this might mean that a modern Jewish Q.Y. might have started long before 1973 (or 77). For now, none of it all looks correct:
 * 1) How long "before 1948" did Menashe Elissar buy land there?
 * 2) From whom, Abu Ghosh?
 * 3) Was there some farm or settlement in the 30s?
 * 4) Who did it belong to, Abu Ghosh, the monasteries, a Zionist enterprise, the British authorities?
 * 5) Who started building and when?
 * 6) Who did officially establish the town, what year, and under what name?
 * 7) Reliable sources, accessible online, are needed for everything.

Anyone interested? Arminden (talk) 10:33, 1 December 2023 (UTC)