User:Davidbena/sandbox/mentorship

, the edit which I hope to make on the page Deir Hajla is as follows, and will appear (with your permission) in the History section:


 * The decision to erect a monastery at the site may have been related to an early belief that the site marks the spot of the biblical episode mentioned in, "And they came to Goren ha-ʻaṭad (lit. 'Threshing-floor of the thorn tree'), which is in trans-Jordan [westward]." Both chariots and horsemen accompanied Joseph and his brothers. "And there they wailed with a very great and sore wailing."


 * While Epiphanius (4th-century) describes the same place as Aṭaṭ, or what is effectually translated as the "threshing floor of the thorn bush," he gives no identification of the site. The 11th-century biblical exegete Rashi explains the same verse as being a place "encircled by thorns," without identifying the site. However, modern-day historical geographers have identified the place with Deir Hajla.

In my humble opinion, the proper place to put this edit is immediately following the edit which reads:
 * The monastery is said to have been established by Jerome towards the end of the 4th century. In the 6th century, the monastery was also known by the name Monastery of Penthucla, so-named after one of its Bishops.

--- Nableezy. I hope that you have been keeping well. I noticed in the Dayr Aban article, under the section "Ottoman period," where the most-recent edit there should be emended to read as follows:
 * In 1838, Deir Aban was noted as a Muslim village, located in the el-Arkub District, south west of Jerusalem. (End Quote)

If you'll agree to the revised edit (improvements), I'll go ahead and made the edit.Davidbena (talk) 22:47, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

- Nableezy, I hope that you have been enjoying your holiday ('Eid al-Adha). Once again I turn to you, because I wish to make improvements only in the References and Bibliography sections of the article Bayt Nattif. Following the format for Jewish astrology, with your permission, I will make sure that references are in the short-style with a link directly to the Bibliography section, using this format:. As for places where the references are the long style, I will endeavor to make them shorter (short citation), as per above, while the long and complete style moved to the Bibliography section. This will greatly enhance the Bayt Nattif article. I will not add anything to what already exists and will not divulge in political conversation, but only fix the references (each of them) so that they will have a link directly to the Bibliography section. What do you think?Davidbena (talk) 07:33, 2 July 2023 (UTC)