Thread:Snowstripe the Fierce/@comment-5175866-20160405170743

Hi Snowstripe. I greatly appreciate you getting involved and making some edits. I did want to let you know I made some corrections on Nathan, and wanted to explain the corrections I did. FIrst of all I changed the article from saying his notability was about rebuking David about Bathsheba and that he would not build the Temple rather than "telling him the 'Parable of the Rich and Poor Man'". While this is indeed valid, the description I gave describes the things he is more notable for, and the name that you gave Nathan's parable can be easily confused with the parable Jesus gave about Lazarus.

The biggest factual issues you had were in the infobox.With infoboxes you often have to use very precise and technically correct terms, so I am impressed overall at your attempt with filling some of those fields out. Rather than his social class being "Prophet", I listed it was his "Occupation" (rather than recieving visions from God). The occupation field is meant for the title of his job (which gives implication to what that title does), whereas social class is meant for being "Noble", or "Royal", or a "Peasant". Prophets throughout the Bible have had varying social classes (those who served under kings were Noble).

For nationality you listed the name of the nation in which he was from, rather than the nationality itself. The term "Israelite" works for the specific nation he was from. For ethnicity you listed "Middle-Eastern" when really his ethnicity would've been "Hebrew", as Middle eastern just describes the region in which he is from rather than the specific ethnical group. For religion you put "Abrahamic" which is actually a liberal terminology that groups religions that all claim origins in Abraham. It seemed you recongize Nathan did not pratice Judaism, but you didn't know the name. Rather than praticing Judaism, Nathan would've praticed Yahwism.

Note that the things you inserted in the infobox are not things that many know of. I am glad and appreciate your attempt at adding it, but filling out infoboxes often requires understanding of very specific and technically correct terminology. By no means do you have to be a bible scholar, as I myself am untrained in the Bible professionally (I plan on starting formal training within a few years), but SouthWriter has a MA in Divinity. Thank you for editing and I hope you plan on continuing it.

Nathan still would not qualify to be a featured article for this month at this time. I won't be able to spend a lot of time on it this month, because Nathan is in second samuel, not first. We will be reading Second Samuel next month and so I personally can dedicate more time to it then. I think you should try writing on Nathan more (and I or SouthWriter can help you) and see if we can get it nominated for May, as it would fit very well with the book.

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In Christ,

Superdadsuper, Bible Wiki Administrator & Bureaucrat

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