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Line 57: :Both Jerome and Origen who lived in what is today Israel identify Adonis with Tammuz. If you check the sources you see that the phrasing is based on a selective reference to a polemic text.--[[User:Berig|Berig]] [[User talk:Berig|(talk)]] 16:58, 22 July 2024 (UTC) :I move the problematic text here: "although there is no trace of a [[Ancient Semitic religion|Semitic deity]] connected with Adonis or a parallel counterpart.<ref name=":0">[[Robert S. P. Beekes|Beekes, Robert S.P.]] (2009) ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'', Brill. p. 23. "Supposed to be a loan from Semitic (Hebr. adon 'Lord'). But no cult connected with this name is known in the Semitic world, nor a myth parallel to that in Greece".</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Burkert |first=Walter |title=Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical |date=1991 |publisher=Wiley |pages=177 |language=en |quote=For all that, there is in Semitic tradition no known cult connected with this title which corresponds exactly to the Greek cult, to say nothing of a counterpart to the Greek Adonis myth. |author-link=Walter Burkert}}</ref>". If we look at the source it says: "See Burkert 1985: 176f., arguing against Kretschmer, e.g. Kretschmer Glotta 7 (1916): 29ff. and Kretschmer Glotta 10 (1920): 235f." Selecting a piece of information that is clearly polemic is what is called "cherry-picking", i.e. selecting the specific bias that the editor wants to have in the article, pretending it to be uncontroversial. To make things worse, the editor also added the source of the source making it look to the casual reader like two different | |||