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Unify the 5 (!?!) articles dealing with the same site

Enough with this overpoliticised BS! One site is one site. Bayt Jibrin is history, no reason to make it the "main article". This "my lobby is stronger than yours" BS is on kindergarten level.
These 5 articles should be ONE:
-Bayt Jibrin
-Beit Guvrin National Park, actually Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park
-Eleutheropolis
-Kibbutz Beit Guvrin, Israel
-Maresha
Arminden (talk) 14:09, 26 October 2015 (UTC)Arminden[reply]

The discussion goes on at Talk:Eleutheropolis, please add there your contributions. PS: The article Eleutheropolis itself has been moved on 2 January 2023 to become a section of the Bayt Jibrin article, but somehow its discussion page, Talk:Eleutheropolis, does still exist, somewhat hidden from view. Arminden (talk) 15:21, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Marisa Arabised as Marissa?!

I have removed what appears to be a dubious statement:

"[Greek Marisa] Arabised as Marissa (ماريسا).<ref>[[George Arthur Buttrick|Buttrick, George Arthur]] (commentary editor; 1956). ''The Interpreter's Bible'', Volume VI, Abingdon Press, p. 897.</ref>"

The ref dets were initially incomplete (neither Buttrick, nor any other author or editor mentioned).
No online access, cannot check correct text interpretation. A full quote would solve this.
Old, possibly outdated.
Marissa is cited by others as the Hellenised name, along with Marisa - seems to be just a different transliteration from Greek, probably trying to avoid the s being read as a z.
First and foremost: Greek name in use since 4th c. BCE, city destroyed by 40 BCE. When was the name supposedly Arabised, and by whom?!

Arminden (talk) 09:36, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have introduced the Kloner et al. (2003) final report as recent RS for Marissa spelled with ss as "Greek form of Hebrew name". I admit, Buttrick is potentially more likely to have been well-versed in Ancient Greek and its English transliteration than most Israeli archaeologists, but there are far tok many caveats: did he indeed made the dubious statement? Was he a Greek scholar? What about Kloner, Ariel, Finkielsztejn, Korzakova, Levine, Regev, Sagiv and Sidi, who wrote the final report? Still waiting for the quote to decide if it's not all just a faulty interpretation or another type of editing mistake. Arminden (talk) 10:05, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The fault is partially mine: the intro initially stated

"Tel Maresha (Hebrew: תל מראשה), also Marissa (ماريسا the Arabized form)",

which is wrong in many ways, but I made it worse here in 2017, when I understood it to mean, and changed it to:

"... its Hellenised name Marisa, Arabised as Marissa (ماريسا)."

What was already wrong in the initial wording:

It can easily be misunderstood (and actually was!) as stating that Marissa is the Arabised form, while it is the Hellenised form, really.
ماريسا is, as far as I can tell w/o access to 1956 source, not some "Arabised form", which suggests a contemporary, so ancient Arabic variant, but just a transliteration to modern Arabic. So not Arabised, just transliterated to Arabic!
ماريسا, transliterated via Steve Morse's page, is written with a single s!

The full 1956 quote would still help. Why did we even have Marissa in Arabic on enWiki, when the modern Arabic name is Tell Sandahanna? Etc. Arminden (talk) 10:34, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]