The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> them Luwians....again.

them Luwians....again.

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, July 22 2013, 17:40:52 (UTC)
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Dr Dalley has her own reasons for drawing the conclusion she did i.e. that 'Syrian' did not derive from the Greeks but earlier from the Luwians.

She doesn't address Joseph's research which showed that 'Syrian' was the term chosen for Aram by the Jews who translated the Aramaic bible into Greek for the Hellenized Jewish colony at Alexandria who could not read Aramaic. What adds weight to Joseph's claim is that in 1970 a group of Oxford scholars were commissioned to re-issue the bible and went back to Aram and Aramaic for 'Syria' and 'Syrian'. Therefore if 'Syrian' means anything else, it means Aramean and not Assyrian.

But even if you accept Dr Dalley's finding it still doesn't explain why or how or when our people came to call themselves by a Luwian name from 2800 years ago. Why did we ever stop calling ourselves by our own Akkadian name of Assyrian? Why would this proud nation call itself by the name given to it in the language of a minor people they had conquered?

The discovery of this bilingual inscription doesn't provide any answers as to why how or when. We are again just grabbing at straws to convince ourselves and others...same as we did when we totally misunderstood the significance of the Genome Project. In our mad rush to prove we are assyrians we decided this study had found a way to "prove" we are assyrian. It never came close to doing so and, if anyone had bothered to read it, it never pretended to.

That study was only helpful to those who had no idea where their ancestors came from...was it Ireland, France...Norway...Italy or any combination...and then only good for the last 500 years...beyond that it could tell you nothing. It was useful for anyone wondering if there was any Irish, or other, ancestry in his line...but past 500 years it couldn't answer that question, or tell you who else was back there past 500 years.

How could that ever help assyrians? They thought it could show they were genetically related to Ashurbanipal! They also thought that it could prove they came from "Assyria", as if that was still a place on a map. It HAD been there, but now it is Iraq/Kurdistan...the study could only show if your ancestors came from the region today known as Iraq...and we already KNOW THAT!

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