The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5
=> A Reminder taken from Dr. Joseph....
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pancho
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- Friday, March 15 2013, 16:47:51 (UTC) from *** - ***  Mexico -  Windows NT -   MozillaWebsite: Website title: |
The “lost A” theory: “Because the ‘Nestorians’ had always called themselves Syrians (Suraye), strenuous efforts were made by the more educated to prove that Suraye (Syrians) was simply a truncated form of Ashuraye (Assyrian) and that the two terms were synonymous. The initial letter A of ‘Assyrian’ it was explained, was ‘lost’ (tliqta in Syriac…it had dropped out); The lost ‘A’ was now retrieved but placed under a cancellation mark, meaning that it was originally there but was not pronounced. Thus Suraya was written ‘[A]suraya’, which, pronounced Ashuraya, also meant Assyrian.” P 19 ...well, we had to say SOMETHING...elee how explain that we never called ourselves Assyrians until the 19th century...and never called our Church the "Assyrian" Church till 1976? “Heinrichs rightly calls the Lost-A hypothesis very ingenuous, facilitating the claim of the nationalists, but points out that in the Armenian language, the names for Syrian and Assyrian, although similar sounding, both have always retained and pronounced the initial A:Asoric/Asori for Syria/Syrian and Asorestan/Asorestans’i or Asorestanc’i for Assyria/Assyrian.” pp 19-20 ..it seems then that the Armenian contemporaries of us assyrians always knew which was which...and that we were Syrian/Aramean and NOT Assyrian.there were two, distinct, names for each, though their similarity caused the ignorant to think/hope they meant the same. The Armenians always used two distinct, though similar sounding, words for Syrians and Assyrians. Therefore, even if the Assyrians lost their initial “A”, others, contemporaries and neighbors of theirs, always knew they were not the same. “Heinrichs, pp. 106-07, where he calls the hypothesis ‘simply naïve’. Armenian name Asori referred to the people of geographical Syria, the Arameans; it was the name of Arameans wherever they were found. The writer is grateful to the late Dr. Avedis K. Sanjian, Nareski Professor of Armenian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, for confirming my reading of these terms in a letter dated October 10, 1994…In the late 16th century, Sharaf Khan al-Bidlisi referred to the Nestorians of Hakkari (in Anatolia, mine) as ‘Christian infidels called Ashuri’, a borrowing from the Armenian. See al-Bidlisi’s Sharafnameh (in Persian) (Cairo, n.d.), pp. 130-132.” Although the name for Syrians in the Armenian language, “Asori”, sounds very like the modern Assyrians' own name for themselves, “Ashuri”, it was not, but rather always referred to Syrians and not Assyrians. ....the lord bless ignorance....he always does. --------------------- |
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