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How Modern Chaldeans Were Invented First

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Monday, February 26 2007, 21:17:34 (CET)
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How Modern Chaldeans Were Invented Before Modern Assyrians.

(I’ll treat with how the Nestorians were duped into believing they are modern Assyrians next).

Dr Joseph states that:

“It was because of the GEOGRAPHICAL (emphasis his) location of their patriarchate, and not because of their ethnic origin, that the East Syrians (Nestorians) were called Chaldeans.”

And further on:

“ Rassam (Hormuzd Rassam, assistant to Layard) wrote that ‘the present Chaldeans (members of both the Nestorian Church and its Catholic offshoot), with few exceptions, speak the same dialect that is used in the Targums, and in some parts of Ezra and Daniel, which are called Chaldee”. To bolster his theory that the Nestorians were the descendants of the ancient Chaldeans, Rassam drew upon classical historical sources and asserted that Xenophon had called the inhabitants of northern Mesopotamia ‘Chaldeans’. By ‘Chaldeans’ Xenophon meant the inhabitants of Urartu, (the ancient Assyrian name of the country later called Armenia), who are also known as Haldians, Khaldians, and Chaldeans. Interestingly when Xenophon and his ten thousand passed through Assyria just over 200 years after the fall of the Assyrian empire, he found the region sparsely populated and identified the sites of Nimrud and Nineveh as ruined Median cities and referred to their former inhabitants as Medes.”

Let me add just one footnote which appears at the bottom of this page as a reference source…

“See Xenophon’s “Anabasis”, II, v and ‘passim’. Throughout his celebrated memoir, Xenophon designates Assyria by the name of Media. See Eduard Meyer, ‘Media’, in Encyclopedia Britannica (11th edition). See also David Oates, “Studies in the Ancient History of Northern Iraq. London, (Oxford, 1968),p. 60; M. Rostovtzeff, “A History of the Ancient World” (Oxford, 1925), I, 117; J. Friedrich, “Extinct Languages” (new York, 1957), p. 81; A.T.E Olmstead, “History of Assyria” (new York, 1923), pp, 100-111; H.R. Hall, “The Ancient History of the Near East” (London, 1947), pp.458-459.”

Of course all of the above may be wrong…but simply saying so isn’t enough. There are errors by the millions covering every range and facet of the topic…yelling and swearing and ‘exposing” each other does nothing, except add to the errors for no one can get away with calling what he or she shouts as the “truth”, so long as the noise level is above “murder”.

I know I haven’t read all these books and I doubt if anyone else has…besides Dr Joseph and people in the field professionally. Just this one footnote to one paragraph you’d think would give us pause…make us calm down a little and do more “thorough research” ourselves instead of concluding that it’s all a “bunch of lies”. But we don’t…we sweep away anything and everything that stands in our way…because we are amateurs and don’t know what we are doing…except we know we MUST be proven right…that is a very dangerous combination, dangerous, so far, only to our own mental health as well as to that of our young people who, like Don, place themselves in the awkward position of sneering at the very culture, people and their institutions to which he is appealing, and paying, for the privilege of being “educated” by. So far the damage has only been inflicted on us, by us. That’s because, without realizing it, we have been forced to dumb down and dumb down to keep maintaining these wild-assed “truths” of ours…while the rest of the scholarly world has been trying to open up.

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