The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

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Re: I must disagree....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Tuesday, March 3 2009, 4:12:10 (CET)
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...very true. And I sort of hinted to Dr Ross that while I was owning up to our own national myths, that he should agree that ALL people have such national myths...no one more so than Americans who still have that famous quote on the Statue of Liberty, though they don;t brag about it any more....but the earliest Americans were thieves, whores, pimps, cutthroats plus some pretty decent and brilliant individuals.

As far as only going back to Arameans and no further...I don;t think that ends the argument. His point , and that of those who said Assyrians "disappeared" is that when you forget your language...you will soon forget your history and then heritage and culture. And this is borne out because no Nestorian, in 1847, could read Akkadian or knew anything more about the ancients than what was contained in the Bible..which is also where they got their negative views of those ancients...but none of them could have read cuneiform...that is how Assyrians "disappeared".

The Aramaic language, on the other hand, did not disappear so that the Christians who adopted this as their liturgical language, remembered the Aramaic/Christian culture.

I didn;t want to pick a new fight with him, since I was apologizing....but I hope he took the hint.



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