User talk:Rcjavid

Manual of Style issue
Just letting you know that wikipedia's Manual of Style recommends not using periods for era notations (BCE/BC vs. B.C.E./B.C.) See Manual of Style (dates and numbers). Usually, if it isn't broken, then there is no need to fix something. I appreciate that you are a new user and you are eager to help out. I just would like to steer you in a more productive direction. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I'm going to post a default welcome message below with some helpful links:

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Hi Andrew, Thanks for the welcome note and the advice. I'm happy to be a part of this.It helps me also. I had a question about the inline citation. The last citation that I edited [King Cyrus' edict] didn't take me back to the correct source although the exact URL address was used. The problem may be that I don't understand how o cite biblical references. I'll study this some more, but any help you could give me would be appreciated. Regards Rcjavid (talk) 17:20, 25 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok, check out this link to see the before and after (diff) between your last edit and my edit which fixed the reference. First of all you had two tags, so I removed one. Then I formatted the external link. External links should include full http:// addresses, and be surrounded by [brackets]. For more info on linking, check out Help:Link. Hope this helped.-Andrew c [talk] 01:47, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

major editing on the Hasmonean Dynasty
Hello Main Editors at Wikipedia,

I felt the need to do more editing that I would have like to on the Hasmonean timeline section as shown below. Please let me know if this was too much of a change from the writer's original. Thanks.

Hasmonean Kingdom
. Rcjavid (talk) 12:43, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 168-142 BCE. The Maccabee Rebellion, Hanukkah and the Hasmonean Kingdom (164-63)
 * 160-60 BCE. Beginning of the formation of the community at Qumran [from whom came the Dead Sea Scrolls].
 * 134-104 BCE. "Age of Expansion" - John Hyrcanus's [Ethnarch & High Priest of Jerusalem] annexation of Trans-Jordan, Samaria, Galilee and Idumea, forced conversion of Idumeans to Judaism and hiring of non-Jewish mercenaries, etc.

--- Re: Exodus number - for inline citation on Ancient Israel article: Writer notes Numbers 1:46 as verifing source. Actual number quoted here is 603,550. see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus#Numbers_involved_in_the_Exodus

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