Talk:Ezekiel 37

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Merger proposal[edit]

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To not merge on the grounds that the Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones is independently notable, primarily as a literary inspiration. Klbrain (talk) 13:37, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm proposing a merger of the article Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones into this article, as the former is a stub with little content to date, summarising verse 1-11, which would fit well into this article. - BobKilcoyne (talk) 07:43, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No. Better to expand and source. There is, for example, an 1844 book by the presidential ancestor, bible scholar George Bush: The valley of vision, or, The dry bones of Israel revived. I'll try to make time to improve this page. But this prophecy can stand and should stand alone as an article.NotButtigieg (talk) 20:20, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, wait, maybe this does make sense. Article still needs improvement. NotButtigieg (talk) 20:22, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Count me against the merger. While it's clear that "Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones" is an actual topic, it's much less clear that "Ezekiel 37" is. Biblical chapter divisions don't actually mean much -- they're sort of like page numbers. Eliminating a well-formed topic and shoehorning the content into an article built around an arbitrary text division seems like a step backward. Alephb (talk) 01:36, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Or in other words, I'm unconvinced Ezekiel 37 meets WP:N, while I think Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones does meet WP:N. Alephb (talk) 02:04, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No. Both can be developed separately. The prophecy is only the first half of Ezekiel 37. JohnThorne (talk) 00:52, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I would be happy if the merger didn't happen, because I'm working on an article about a book (The Valley of Bones) that is named for this prophecy and it would be so much more meaningful to be able to link to an (expanded) version of Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones than just to Ezekiel 37. Keeping Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones as a separate article also allows expansion into what are probably very many cultural references to it. Novellasyes (talk) 12:27, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone ahead and added a "Literary references" section on the Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones article, and included one reference. I'll look for more. Novellasyes (talk) 16:28, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I just did a search for "Valley of Dry Bones" in the Google Books-specific search. Goodness. So many authors who called their book after the Valley of Bones metaphor. Novellasyes (talk)

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