The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5
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Posted by
pancho
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- Sunday, April 7 2013, 1:42:59 (UTC) from *** - *** -  Windows NT -   MozillaWebsite: Website title: |
...we must get the habit of quoting sources and using actual sources...not just things we hear, or were told, or think we heard. From Dr. Joseph's book.... “Thanks to the Old Testament, the names “Assyria” and “Assyrian” were well known for centuries, long before the archaeological excavations of the nineteenth century. In the works of the early Christian writers, notes Fiey, we find all the gamut of references to these ancients employing indifferently the words Syrians, Athurians [Assyrians], Chaldeans, and Babylonians, but these writers never identified with these ancients. 'I have made indices of my Christian Assyria,' emphasized Fiey, 'and have had to align some 50 pages of proper names of people; there is not a single writer who has an Assyrian name.” footnote: See his Assyriens' ou Arameens'?” (my own note; you can see by the title of this work of his that he thinks we could be Arameans). and... “Assemani, according to Fiey, found a certain Assyrian descendance in all the peoples of the region:Jacobite, Nestorian, Sabaens, Yezidis, and a great deal among the Kurds. Also in the 18th century, the British historian Edward Gibbon, aware of this confusion of names, wrote that the Nestorians, 'Under the name of Chaldeans or Assyrians, are confounded with the most learned or the most powerful nation in Eastern antiquity.” pp 22-23. Our own people write history as they please...they hunt for what can be useful, often pulling it out of context and even leaving things off that would disprove the theories they are desperately trying to manufacture...they also have a lot of “heart” a lot of hot blood which they bring to their “books”...but this passion does not take the place of actual historical writing, and actually goes against what is expected of respected historians and academics....which is the reason these claims of ours impress no one...because real people turn to REAL historians when they want reliable information....they turn to Dr Joseph, as the U.S. State Department has many times, and not to Aprim or someone else whose grandmother explained his history to him...or his illiterate village priest. We make objects of derision out of ourselves...which suits my purposes perfectly well...but doesn't go far enough in exposing this nonsense and putting it to rest once and for all.....at least as far as the general public is concerned...experts already know we are fooling ourselves. --------------------- |
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