Talk:Zechariah (New Testament figure)

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Change of name from Zacharias

It may be better to use for this priest the common modern English spelling Zechariah both in the title and throughout this article. This spelling is used e.g. in the article

Elizabeth (Biblical person); but the link there was taking the reader to the prophet Zechariah. I have fixed that link so that it leads to this article. However, a consistent spelling throughout the English Wikipedia for the priest Zechariah must surely be desirable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.9.221 (talk • contribs
) 01:53, 2 October 2005

Some of the information in this page conflicts with islamic information. John The Baptist (Yahya) was the son of Zachariah (Zekeriya) but this name (John) was given by God not by Elizabeth. It's also mentioned in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya. 195.87.161.38 23:38, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

From a layman's perspective, I must state that Muslims I know refer to this individual as Zacharias and I may not have found this article but for this fact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.81.252.12 (talk • contribs) 14:55, 20 July 2006

Other Muslims use the name Zakariya. I have renamed the article following the first suggestion above, and set up a disambiguation page and redirects for Zacharias, Zakariya etc. Fayenatic london (talk) 21:04, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

from Pink: The name that Muslims use when referring to Prophet Zakariya is زكريا (za kaf ra ya alif). Would it be possible for someone to list the various spellings of the name in various languages as is done for other figures common to various religions? 66.112.51.45 (talk) 18:11, 19 March 2008 (UTC) Pink[reply]

I'd agree if he was important to more than two religions. The Arabic is in the Islamic section at the end of this article. This Zechariah is not important to Jews, so the Hebrew is not given here, but it's at Zechariah (given name) and Zechariah (Hebrew prophet). That seems about right to me.
By the way, what source are you quoting as "Pink", please? - Fayenatic (talk) 20:07, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Move in 2013

The page was recently moved from

Zechariah (priest) to Zechariah (New Testament figure), but this was reverted today for lack of evidence that the Old Testament prophet was a priest. IMHO, even though "Zechariah (priest)" was my idea several years ago, the name "Zechariah (New Testament figure)" was an improvement in clarity, and I would support putting it back there. As for Zechariah (Hebrew prophet), he probably was also a priest, and this is referred to in the article. – Fayenatic London 18:00, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply
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Islamic view of Zechariah

Prophets in the Qur'an template should go the Islamic view of Zechariah article. The last paragraph has a link to this article (Zakariya), but we could add a "see also" link if someone sees it appropriate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oriolpont (talk • contribs) 09:18, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

At the minimum this article should have a visible link to
Islamic view of Zechariah, but it seems to me that the template should be restored as a concise and encyclopedic navigation aid. I think all the other articles on the template have it, apart from Jesus and Elisha from which it was recently removed without explanation by a one-edit anon. Restoring it in that article and this one, pending further discussion here. - Fayenatic (talk) 13:37, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply
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Islamic view of Zechariah, like Zechariah in Islam, now redirects to a specific section in this article. Leo1pard (talk) 04:04, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply
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Baha'i faith

The Zechariah mentioned in Baha'u'llah's Summons of the Lord of Hosts is NOT this

Zechariah (priest), the father of John the Baptist, but the earlier Hebrew prophet of this name. Section moved to Zechariah (Hebrew prophet), "a prophet of the kingdom of Judah" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Keislar (talk • contribs) 14:43, 21 August 2011 (UTC)[reply
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Virgin Birth

Leslie Weatherhead suggests that Zechariah might have been the biological father of Jesus - see http://DLMcN.com/weatherhead.html ... Some members of the Unification Church subscribe to that view. Is that worth a mention? --DLMcN (talk) 04:44, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like
WP:FRINGE. Bermicourt (talk) 12:02, 4 December 2021 (UTC)[reply
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Page views

Leo1pard (talk) 04:04, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Region

Ash-Shâm) is a region that includes the modern countries of Syria and Lebanon, and the land of Palestine.[1][2] The term 'Levant' can mean either this region,[3][4] or in a broader sense, include other places, such as Iraq.[5] Leo1pard (talk) 04:04, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply
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References

  1. C.E. Bosworth, Encyclopaedia of Islam
    , Volume 9 (1997), page 261.
  2. Muslim
    Arabic usage.
  3. ^ Burke, Aaron (2010), "The Transformation of Biblical and Syro-Palestinian Archaeology", in Levy, Thomas Evan (ed.), Historical Biblical Archaeology and the Future: The New Pragmatism, London: Equinox
  4. ISBN 978-0-19-517072-6
  5. ^ "The Levant Crisis: Syria, Iraq and the Region". Australian National University. 2015-12-11. Retrieved 2017-11-19.

Requested move 8 September 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 16:16, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

– Primary topic and long term significance as the father of

talk) 17:31, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply
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The hatnote would look something like this:

This article is about the figure in the New Testament. For the author of the
talk) 17:50, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply
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The full quote is "A topic is primary for a term with respect to usage if it is highly likely—much more likely than any other single topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term." (my bold). This doesn't really meet the second bit. Johnbod (talk) 16:14, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
For a long time, there was just one citeria for primary topic: "much more used than any other topic." In 2010, the guideline was changed by Kotniski. From looking at the discussion, he was a one-man band on this. He explained his reasoning this way:
The dominate topic on the first page of Google results is the Book of Zechariah. See Zechariah -wikipedia. Google's algorithm presumably has a better sense of what readers are looking for than we do. If we imagine readers clicking through disambiguation pages, as Kotniski apparently did, and apply his "fewer clicks" standard, this should be the primary topic.
I myself have never clicked through disambiguation pages to find a desired topic. Modern programing emphasizes the use of defaults to anticipate what the user wants. The "search tree" thinking behind this guideline is quite old fashioned. 99to99 (talk) 19:21, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Your argument here clearly shows oppose, the highest viewed (two articles combined) and searched topic is the book. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:03, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Let's face it, both are obscure. Johnbod (talk) 16:14, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Dimadick: did you miss the book? [1] ? In ictu oculi (talk) 15:41, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Requested move 8 August 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: no consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 16:23, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Iskandar323 (talk) 07:59, 8 August 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. BilledMammal (talk) 13:30, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply
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Modern English has -h. In ictu oculi (talk) 16:08, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It's "Zacharias" with an "a" for the second letter, not just an "h".
Iskandar323 (talk) 18:09, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply
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No it is not. Please look in modern English sources. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:41, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't asserted that Zacharias is only called Zacharias and not Zechariah, only that where "Zacharias" appears that it predominantly refers to the figure in Luke. Yes, you can find Bible translations that use Zechariah for both, just as the King James Bible uses "Zacharias" for Luke, and "Zechariah" for "Zechariah". This doesn't relates to what the
Iskandar323 (talk) 07:54, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply
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Relisting comment: Relist, to discuss whether "Zechariah" or "Zacharias" is the common name, and if it is Zechariah whether Zecharias is sufficient common to be used as natural disambiguation. BilledMammal (talk) 13:30, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I've just posted this directly to various WikiProject talk pages/noticeboards for additional input, so if prospective closers could leave it for another day or two, that would be appreciated.
Iskandar323 (talk) 07:27, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply
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I just don't see how your proposal is an improvement, it might be even more confusing for readers searching up for the prophet. Jerium (talk) 13:14, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The prophet's book itself is called the
Iskandar323 (talk) 14:00, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply
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The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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