Talk:Aphek (biblical)

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Confusing, unsourced mishmash

Added here by ± copying "dubious" and "cn" tags from the article text, placed there in 2015 (!) and as yet ignored and unaddressed.

"A more recent theory has focused on regarding this same Aphek also as the scene of the two battles against the Philistines [Q1] mentioned by the Bible - the supposition [Q2] being that the Syrians[Q3] were invading Israel from the western side, which was their most vulnerable."[Q4]

Q1: The ARAMEANS were based at nearby Damascus, whereas the PHILISTINES were based on the Med. coast SW of here, with the latter fighting the Israelites centered on Shiloh (see sons of Eli) and Saul based in Benjamin, so both sides quite far away to the S and SW. Why would both sides march far outside their respective territories to do battle? Then the sentence jumps back to "Syrians", i.e. Arameans. Chaotic, counterintuitive, and unsourced - so confusing & useless for now. I'm leaving it on this - basically disambiguation - page, but won't use it on the Fiq, Syria page with the rest.

Q3: See Q1: Sentence jumps back and forth: Arameans - Philistines - Syrians = (again) Arameans.

Q2, Q4: unsourced. Chaotic, w/o source to help rewrite and make sense of it it's only confusing and basically unreliable & useless. Arminden (talk) 11:29, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]