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Article: Eldad ha-Dani

NOTES - This article provides a concise overview of Eldad ha-Dani, as well as more in-depth descriptions of his travels, reception of his story, potential connection to Prester John, and critical opinions and responses to his account.

Provides a pretty comprehensive summary of Eldad's travels, written from a neutral point of view. However, the information is based primarily on a single version of Eldad's account which the author considered to be the most complete version available. The author does note the existence of multiple versions but does not discuss any significant variations that would potentially alter his/her summary.

The section on the "Reception of his story" is brief and a little confusing. Given the different variations and controversy surrounding the legitimacy of Eldad's account, I think this section could use more information and clarification.

The "Nineteenth century opinions" section discusses varying critical responses to Eldad's account from an unbiased, neutral viewpoint. The author hyperlinks the critics involved in the discussion, which is helpful to gain information on their critical background and reasoning.

For the most part, this article is informative, well-organized, and accurate (based on my knowledge from class). The article lacks citations, but does provide a lot of in-text hyperlinks to relevant information for further reading - and the links all work. The articles rating says "needs additional citations for verification," which matches my concerns with sourcing and accuracy.