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Cambridge University professor reviews Dr. Joseph's book...

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, March 19 2012, 0:18:48 (UTC)
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Here is a review of Dr John Joseph’s book by J.F. Coakley.

Dr Coakley has been a fellow (at Cambridge University, mine) since 2008, before which he was on the staff of Houghton Library at Harvard University, and a senior lecturer in Syriac in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Before that (1976-1993) he was lecturer in Religious Studies at Lancaster University.

His research interests are in Syriac manuscripts; Syriac biblical exegesis; the history of western-church missions to the oriental churches; and typography, with special reference to Syriac and other non-roman scripts.

To Aprim and Nenus Yonan, of course, both Dr Joseph and Dr Coakley are fools and idiots…..regardless….

“To sum up: Dr. Joseph’s book “Modern Assyrians” is not a book that displaces others, but it is welcome and valuable alike to those who have, and who have not, used the earlier edition. It is still the best discussion of the political history of the Modern Assyrians and still the richest bibliographical guide to the subject, its discussion of international politics after World War I is particularly thorough and it is absolutely required reading for anyone wishing to understand the debate over the identity of the ‘Assyrians’.”

…I can imagine the administration at Wikipedia will find this refreshing after reading “articles” by Aprim and Nenus Yonan and their ilk. I just got my copy of Dr Joseph’s book from storage and will be working on the article Wikipedia says it needs…by an EXPERT.

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