The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5
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When you’re interested in understanding things you don’t start out with something to prove…you don’t begin the search knowing what you want to find and ready to reject whatever isn’t pleasing. You just look and see what’s there. As they say; doubt, not certainty, is the first step towards knowledge. We already believe we’re Assyrians and also that only Christians can be real Assyrians…we also believe, are told to believe, that we were persecuted, suffered massacres, were forcibly converted, killed merely for our religion, suffered a diaspora, suffered a genocide, suffered a Holocaust “just like the Jews” and just like the Jews, will get a homeland someday when the world “gives us what we deserve”…end of story. Anyone who challenges what is essentially our “national” dogma, especially one of us, is a loathsome human bean, traitor, heretic, an enemy etc. Obviously very few are going to risk an examination of any of this objectively...in fact, to be objective is to be a criminal in Assyria…to be an “enemy”, one who “hates Aprim” etc. In other words the human mind, in its highest functions, is not welcome in Assyria, what is needed is unquestioning faith coupled with boundlessly naďve expectations….and we wonder why we make no sense to anyone and are at each other’s throats like heretic-hunting fanatics. Something I just noticed, even after reading Durant all these years, is that while Syria is mentioned throughout modern history…Assyria isn’t….except to refer to it as a province of the Roman Empire or the Persians…this is after the fall of Nineveh. That region is always referred to as Mesopotamia…and while Syrians, as a people, are mentioned, and Syriac as a religion and language…and Aramaic is mentioned often enough…Assyrians, as people, are not…neither is their language, Aramaic not being their language. How come? Has the world conspired that much? Why would it? Why would the Romans call Syria by its name but call Assyria Mesopotamia? Is it because both Syria and Mesopotamia are Greek words and the region was Hellenized before the Romans took over? The word Mesopotamia isn’t related to Assyria, as a word. It translates to BetNahrain….”between rivers”. According to Dr Joseph, Syria is the name the Hellenized Jews of Alexandria gave to Aram, the land of the Arameans…also the name they gave to the Aramaic language, “Syriac”. I guess the simple answer is that the Greek forms of both words, BetNahrain and Aram, came to be standard usage…hence Mesopotamia and Syria…but not Assyria. Not until the Brits discovered and flattered us did we call ourselves Assyrians. The British named us, we didn’t. --------------------- |
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