Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Egyptian influences in the Hebrew Bible


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. There's rough agreement here that the potential exists for an article on this topic, but the current article is so badly written, WP:OR, and poorly sourced, that it shouldn't be kept. No problem with somebody recreating this with better sourcing. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:07, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

Egyptian influences in the Hebrew Bible

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Article lacks citations and uses weasel words. Saberus (talk) 17:54, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions.  Jupitus Smart  06:18, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete Seems like WP:OR--Shrike (talk) 11:02, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment There does seem to be some books on the topic, though not many, and I don't know how authoritative Deathlibrarian (talk) 13:12, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep The subject matter seems worthy of a wikipedia article to me, although admittedly this page may be duplicating the content that appears in some of the "see also" links. Considering the extent of documented Egyptian involvement in Canaan from 3000-500BC it should be expected that the Egyptians would have influenced any religion that developed in the area. I for one am interested to learn what sort of influences these might be. Another well known link is between Psalm 104 and the Hymn to the Aten which I'll put in if I can find a suitable reference. Saberus's criticism seems to boil down to "the sources need improving" which doesn't imply that the article should be deleted. Woscafrench (talk) 16:14, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment I see it's been put in but without the statement from Miriam Lichtheim which I've added. Doug Weller  talk 09:37, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bible-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:35, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 03:18, 13 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep - the article could do with some improvement, but just because it needs improvements does not mean that it needs to be deleted.Vorbee (talk) 10:23, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment -- This is a poor article on a notable subject. Some scholars have certainly speculated on whether there is a link between monotheism in ancient Israel and the earlier attempt to impose it in Egypt.  Some scholars have attempted to argue that ancient Israel was more polytheistic than the Bible wishes to assert.  However we have no source but the Bible itself and links with Aten are essentially scholastic speculation.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:48, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:59, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete per WP:TNT. This article trends to OR and perhaps could be done better. I'd rather let a more capable editor write a new article than allow this to persist. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 21:49, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per ... something :-). Pointless and OR, with copy such as: "It is generally accepted[by whom?] that some elements..." and "Some authors believe..." etc. There may be a notable topic there somewhere, but this article ain't it. WP:TNT this thing. K.e.coffman (talk) 23:03, 19 July 2017 (UTC)


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