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A fact from Tell Balata appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 March 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that in Tell Balata, a tell in the West Bank, there are towers and buildings estimated to be 5,000 years old?
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Why no reference to Joshua 24:25?
As both Erenst Sellin (1926) and G. Erenest Wright (1956) both concluded that Tel Balata was the site of the temple El-berith in the city of Shechem based on the story of Joshua "standing up stones" as a covenant between God and the House of Israel, it seems odd that no reference is made to this in this article.
Assuming that Wikipedia is reluctant to use the Bible as a source, it is still a fact that Tel Balata was determined to be Shechem based on the standing stones/temple that was found there and the biblical narrative.
