Talk:Gathering of Israel
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- Cool. That's one step. Now please deal with the issue of the article being OR and not referenced otherwise. I think there's also a rule about not writing essays on WP, but obviously, the beauty of wp is finding those sources and having others collaborate on the article. Another thing, besides the OR, is that even though I haven't read the whole piece, it seems that some sections are POV. If it's a work in progress, I'll let you continue, but it needs improvement. The subject is certainly an important phenomenon. --Shuki 07:41, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "Doctrine & Covenant" references and overall article structure
Is this article attempting to cover the Gathering of Israel as described Biblically, or historical Zionism? There seems to be a blurring of sources into a single story rather than an examination of differing views of the gathering among Jews and Christians. The Doctrine & Covenant has no relevance in Jewish thought, for example. It seems that instead of a chronology that appears to be Jewish history, separate discussions of the significance of the Gathering of Israel to different theologies would be in order. All of them being blended into a one-viewpoint history of the Jewish people with non-Jewish scripture citations doesn't serve any purpose I can discern.
History of Zionism and History of Israel do a better job of covering that material. The gathering as a precondition for the Second Coming would seem to belong here, too, but in a section about Christian theology. The references to Mormon scripture would belong in either a subsection or its own separate place, rather than in a discussion of the Abrahamic Covenant.
I'm not so bold as to attempt a rewrite about a topic I don't know, but these changes seem necessary for thematic coherence. Tiresias BC (talk) 00:20, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
