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Nadia Abu El Haj

I moved your article to Nadia Abu El Haj, which is the proper capitalization of her name. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 20:16, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

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Alan F Segal

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Al-Haj

Find a source for the summary, and for the notability of the quote. Hornplease 15:01, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Quote from Facts on the Ground

I'm sorry. You were right; the quote does appear on page 104 of Facts on the Ground — but not in the context you describe. Read pages 103 and 104, and it's clear that Abu El Haj is discussing the Israelite conquest and not the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. As I wrote at Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society,

In Facts on the Ground, Abu El Haj describes a bitter debate between Israeli archaeologists Yigael Yadin and Yohanan Aharoni during the 1950s over how to reconcile and interpret the results of their excavations with respect to the Biblical account of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites. She writes that they "shared more than they disagreed about: the historicity of the biblical tales, the 'fact' of an Israelite nation that entered Palestine during the Bronze Age/Iron Age transition"; she describes this assumed "social collectivity" of the ancient Israelites as "a tale best understood as the modern nation's 'origin myth' ... transported into the realm of history."

— Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 17:22, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Please use talk page

Hi MercyOtis. You keep readding information to the Nadia Abu El Haj article that is WP:OR. There is a discussion on the Talk:Nadia Abu El Haj page about this. Please read it and participate before attempting to reinsert that material again. Thanks, and welcome to Wikipedia. Tiamut 20:08, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

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