User talk:Yesterday, all my dreams.../Review1

Great Review!

I read your review of Bouflet's book, and, in a word: illuminating. I learned quite a lot. You make some fascinating arguments. I particularly enjoyed all the archeological evidence, especially the Jezreel Towers evidence (!!), Bar Kokhba Revolt coinage evidence (!), and the Tiberias sleuth work. Also interesting was the lost-in-translation errors relating to Agave "petals", and the patently absurd linguistic attack of not using the ancient rendering of "vanilla" instead of the modern Italian one. Also great references to Laurentin's and Lavere's books. Too bad I don't speak French (sigh). Anyway, really good read. Thank you for taking the time!

BTW, what do you think of Lavere's other book: L'énigme Valtorta? Arkenstrone (talk) 23:15, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

I think L'énigme Valtorta? was an early attempt and I do not pay atention to it. Lavere was still learning. The locations book is better. Laurentin's Names book is also interestng. But I am still working on the review. There are several other people mentioned there to review yet. Then I will discuss the issues on WP:RSN. So there is no rush. No rush, calm is the order of the day. Yesterday, all my dreams... (talk) 02:34, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

I've been thinking about what you said above. I think that a WP:RSN may be a better avenue in this instance than an RfC. So I'll wait and let you do the heavy lifting when you're ready. Arkenstrone (talk) 02:08, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Finkelstein et al

Thought you would find this interesting[1], while Finkelstein's interpretation of the findings are interesting presenting them as settled science is a mistake. Also note that Finkelstein is not contending that the spice we know as vanilla was present in ancient Israel, just that parts of related plant were used for perfume purposes (the types he contends were traded produce no commercially viable seed pod at all, the seed pod is the spice known as vanilla). Horse Eye's Back (talk) 20:22, 10 June 2023 (UTC)