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Posted on 09/11/2013 4:30:11 AM PDT by markomalley
No.
A little tweaking: the author mistakes Jews with Hebrews. Jews are descended from the Kingdom of Judah, the southern state. the whole of the people would be called Hebrews, I suspect because Abraham’s grandfather’s name was Ever, which has the same root consonants as Ivri, Hebrew for Hebrew.
The Assyrians are assumed to be Semites, while the Scythians are assumed to be Indo-European, perhaps Aryans, like the Persians and the Turks. Assyrians were not Scythians.
Ancient Syria was ruled and populated by Arameans, another Semitic people.
Ancient Assyria was located in northern Mesopotamia. The so-called "Assyrians" of today are not the ancient Assyrians but rather eastern Arameans (Syrians) who take their name from a British church mission to the area in the nineteenth century ("the Assyrian mission"). The so-called "Assyrian language" of today is merely eastern Syriac. The language of the ancient Assyrians is, like its speakers, long extinct.
However, as a Biblical sentimentalist, a reborn "Assyria" strike me as kind of neat (though they'd probably be anti-Israel). As a matter of fact, right after World War I there was talk of creating an independent "Assyria."
In Fr.Pope's words:
"If we do not repent, we cannot be strong, and our enemies will surely overwhelm us. And what will our Assyria, our Rome be? It could be radical Islam, it could be our debt crisis, it could be our demographic winter. But by failing to repent, by our injustice, our refusal to keep commitments, our rising unbelief and ingratitude, by our sacrificing our children on the “altars” of our lust and our burning incense to the “gods” of this age, we are calling a just punishment and grave consequences that cannot forever wait."
Given the players, I don't know if there is a solution other than to let the Sunnis and the Shiites destroy each other.
Even though the answer is “no”, this post reads like the book, “The Harbinger.” Modern Iraq is Assyria of the Bible
Catholic ping!
I would wager that there are more Syrians in Lebanon than Damascus.
For some reason, besides Beruit, they like the Bakka Valley.
I wonder why?
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Abraham's grandfather was Nahor. He had a more remote ancestor named Eber, six generations back.
The Scythians and Persians spoke Iranian languages of the Indo-European language family, which were related to the languages brought into India by the so-called Aryans. The Turkic languages are completely unrelated (they are distantly related to Mongolian).
Assyria was really Ashuria, the descendents of Shem’s second son Ashur.
Syria, population wise is mostly Selucid Turks.
That’s where the water runs.
The modern riddle of the sphinx, as it were - er, grew.
A sphinx (Greek: Σφίγξ /sphinx, Bœotian: Φίξ /Phix) is a mythical creature with, as a minimum, the body of a lion and a human head. In Greek tradition, it has the haunches of a lion, the wings of a great bird, and the face of a woman. She is mythicised as treacherous and merciless.
Back from the memory hole:
The Sphink at Giza gazes over the horizon at its own image on the ground, which in turn is facing (bowing toward) Mecca.
Sure, man controls his own destiny. /s
Racially, Turks are Aryan, not Mongolian.
Runs along with the drugs and weapons...slave trade, and spices too.
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The drugs mostly run north along the Black Sea.
You are annoying sometimes, but fun none the less.
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Scolding does annoy the kids, but keeping them amused is important too :o)
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