Talk:Lector priest

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WikiProject Ancient Egypt to-do list:

Needed articles.

We should have an article on every pyramid and every nome in Ancient Egypt. I'm sure the rest of us can think of other articles we should have.

Cleanup.

To start with, most of the general history articles badly need attention. And I'm told that at least some of the dynasty articles need work. Any other candidates?

Standardize the Chronology.

A boring task, but the benefit of doing it is that you can set the dates !(e.g., why say Khufu lived 2589-2566? As long as you keep the length of his reign correct, or cite a respected source, you can date it 2590-2567 or 2585-2563)

Stub sorting

Anyone? I consider this probably the most unimportant of tasks on Wikipedia, but if you believe it needs to be done . . .

Data sorting.

This is a project I'd like to take on some day, & could be applied to more of Wikipedia than just Ancient Egypt. Take one of the standard authorities of history or culture -- Herotodus, the Elder Pliny, the writings of Breasted or Kenneth Kitchen, & see if you can't smoothly merge quotations or information into relevant articles. Probably a good exercise for someone who owns one of those impressive texts, yet can't get access to a research library.

Merger proposal

Kerheb is a duplicate of this article, and the two should definitely be merged. I believe that the merged article belongs under this title, as "lector priest" is definitely the term most used in English-language sources. Most or all sources that mention lector priests, such as the article on "priesthood" in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, give the Egyptian term once (usually in the form given in this article, ẖry-ḥb.t, rather than a transcription like "kerheb") and then use "lector priest" throughout the rest of the text.

In any case, there is no reason for both these stub articles to exist, aside from the confusion created by the differing transcription and transliteration systems for Egyptian words and by the inadequate organization of WP's ancient Egypt articles. A. Parrot (talk) 04:54, 25 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nobody showed up to agree or disagree, so I did the merge. Or, rather, I turned kerheb into a redirect, as all the useful information in it was already present here. A. Parrot (talk) 05:09, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]