Talk:Uriah the Hittite

message: Did Bathsheba want to have sex with David?
:Maybe. The Bible does say "he was ruddy, and fine in appearance with handsome features." —Angr 12:31, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: -----------he was the king and she was a soldier's wife!  Although no indication of rape is in the biblical account, she probably did not feel she had any choice in the matter.  WBardwin (talk) 23:08, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but though I am a man and thus cannot give first-hand information, I have heard tell that a life of battle (or similar), with the signs it leaves on a body, is the very last thing to diminish a man's sex appeal.--2001:A61:260D:6E01:DD51:39B0:CD6B:DC0 (talk) 11:09, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: I just reverted an edit by User:SamuelTheGhost.  Rather than restating the Biblical account, I believe that more information relating to the "Hittite" designation of Uriah, which is found in the Bible, can be drawn from scholarly sources.  WBardwin (talk) 23:08, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sure you do. So wouldn't it be a good idea to cite them? That's what WP:RS means. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 08:15, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Please -- look for cites first -- delete information only after all attempts to find the cite has failed.  And, please, don't cite policy.  Just communicate here instead.  Reverted yet again.  WBardwin (talk) 23:07, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: With the greatest possible respect, could I point out:
*I gave you a full week to respond here and was met with silence; then you tell me to "Just communicate".
*the whole point of my deletion is that I don't believe that a conclusive reliable source exists, so it's hardly up to me to find one. If you think there is one, tell me and the wikipedia world what it is, then perhaps we can make sensible progress. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 09:03, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

text: "A whole week?"  My -- so you don't have anything else to do but come to Wikipedia?  Believe me, a week is a very very short time on this site.  There are many sources for Hittite/Hurrian culture and their interaction with the people of Israel.  It is unlikely that you will easily find this material on the web.  But, these sources are at the university library, some 60 miles away from me.  I go there twice a month, or so, and try and do a little Wiki oriented research.  I've added this topic to a very loooong list.  Please be patient.  Once material is removed -- it is "invisible" to the casual editor who may have information to add.  And it takes away a visible reminder to those of us with long to-do lists.   Thank you.  WBardwin (talk) 00:04, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biblical account 

message: With reference to the recent reversions between me and Keith H.:
*According to wikipedia etiquette as given in WP:BRD, Keith should have come here to complain after I reverted, rather than repeating the edit. But I'll let that pass.
*My motivation for preferring the original wording was that the history and status of the Biblical Hittites is very contentious, so the less one spells out the deatils, the less likely one is to say something wrong. After all the word "minority" implies some judgement about relative popuation numbers, about which we have in fact no information. I'm not inclined to make an issue of it, however, so I'm content to leave it there. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 11:11, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The meaning of surnames is often a matter of presumption, not certainty. It seems most probable that he was one of the Biblical Hittites, whose precise nature is itself uncertain, as described in that article. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 22:36, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The idea that Bathsheba would have been forbidden to have married Uriah had be been an actual Hittite is presented in the article as unquestioned fact.  Despite the obvious Mosaic prohibition, it is equally obvious that this prohibition was quite frequently ignored on a widespread scale (the last two chapters of the Book of Ezra are greatly illustrative of this).  It might be true that Bathsheba might have been less attractive to David as the wife of an acknowledged Gentile rather than that of a Hebrew, but that is merely speculation with no place in an encyclopedic article.  2600:1004:B14A:A290:B932:C987:2194:50C (talk) 22:35, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnic minority 

message: I am oll 82.12.81.97 (talk) 15:39, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: You see a bad thing 82.12.81.97 (talk) 15:40, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agyemanduah