The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5
=> INTRO to my WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE....
| INTRO to my WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE.... |
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pancho
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- Tuesday, March 20 2012, 19:17:17 (UTC) from *** - *** -  Windows XP -   MozillaWebsite: Website title: |
...finally, I can start. I'm going to post sections as I complete them...mostly because I want any input anyone can give...and I don't mean "fuck you". I also want our heroes to know what's coming so maybe they can prepare their rebuttals....cause that will be when the fun really starts. here it is.............. The following article relies on one primary source and that is the book first published in 1961 by Princeton University Press, titled “The Modern Assyrians of the Middle East”, written by Dr. John Joseph, Louis Audenreid Professor of History, Emeritus, who retired recently after thirty years of teaching Middle Eastern history at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster Pennsyvania. Dr Joseph, who graduated with a doctorate in Middle Eastern history from Princeton University, was also recently honored when a new International Studies building at Franklin and Marshall was named after him. What makes Dr. Joseph especially qualified to publish his research into the supposed existence of modern Assyrians is his own affiliation with the community of MidEastern Christian Nestorians, who are primarily responsible for advancing this notion. Dr. Joseph was born in Iraq to a “Chaldean” family and raised with all the usual and, as his later studies confirmed, erroneous claims to direct lineal descent from either the ancient Chaldeans or Assyrians. From the preface to the revised edition, published in 1999, Dr. Joseph writes, “More than ever before, members of the new Assyrian generation realize that they have to be knowledgeable about the past as well as the present, and that a partisan history of their people, in the words of one Assyrian author, ‘is paid little respect and eventually is undermined by trained historians’.” Throughout his book Dr. Joseph graciously concedes to call the modern advocates of these ancient identities by the names they use to refer to themselves, that is; Assyrians or Chaldeans. However, the thrust of his book is that they are mistaken, misled at first by European explorers and adventurers and then by Western missionaries, beginning in the 1840s, who then went on, after World War I, to adopt these ancient names for themselves for political reasons, which will become apparent. --------------------- |
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