After saturday comes sunday
In our own lifetimes we may witness the death of a major 3000 year old language--Aramaic-- the ancient imperial language of the Middle East, the language of the Jewish Talmud and the spoken language used by generations of Chaldeans and Assyrians in their villages--until ISIS appeared. The Jews of Ku...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Piscataway, NJ, USA
Gorgias Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Aramaic language
/ Christian
/ Assyrians (Modern age)
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| Further subjects: | B
Aramaic language
History
B Jews (Middle East) History B Christians (Middle East) History |
| Summary: | In our own lifetimes we may witness the death of a major 3000 year old language--Aramaic-- the ancient imperial language of the Middle East, the language of the Jewish Talmud and the spoken language used by generations of Chaldeans and Assyrians in their villages--until ISIS appeared. The Jews of Kurdistan have spoken Aramaic since the Assyrian Exile in 722, BCE, but they left Iraq for Israel in the 1950s, where they now raise Hebrew-speaking children. Even today, Chaldean and Assyrian Christians pray in Aramaic at branches of the Church of East, a church born in Turkey, Persia and Iraq. Now those in the Diaspora speak other languages. While Church missionaries once spread their religion and language all across China and down to the southern tip of India; today their territory has contracted down to a small fraction of the Middle East, where they are under existential threat. In this book the reader meets a Chaldean great grandmother from Telkaif, Iraq, and a professional woman in Israel whose family comes from Zakho, Iraq. Their stories illustrate the rich centuries-long traditions that are at risk. Can the remaining Christians and their language be saved from extinction in their very birthplace? At least the United States must extend them an umbrella of support so they may rebuild their indigenous communities and train their own militias if they ever hope to resettle safely at home, resume their traditional way of life, and raise children who speak their language What is at stake -- The people and the language -- Kurdish Jews -- Assyrians -- Chaldeans -- Norma -- Telkaif -- Detroit -- Arameans and Aramaic -- Who first spoke the ancient Semitic languages? -- How did they write? -- Is that student a Talmid, Talmithu, Talmidu or Talib? -- Old, imperial, middle and late Aramaic -- Eastern and western neo-Aramaic -- Dialects -- Can a language die? -- The Jews and the church -- Jewish background -- Adiabene and beyond -- Jews in Babylonia -- Jewish aspects of the Church of the East -- The Churches of the East -- The spread of Christianity in the East -- Nestorians and Jacobites -- Islam arrives -- The pact of Omar -- Learned men, patriarchs and schisms -- Schisms -- Patriarchs and caliphs -- Mongols and Turks -- Unification with the Catholic Church -- The struggle for survival -- And schism again -- The church spreads across Asia -- China -- India -- The Jews of Kurdistan -- Their history -- Their lives -- In Zakho -- Saturday in Iraq -- Batia -- In Israel -- The nineteenth century and persecutions -- Under attack but still not united -- Storm clouds gather -- All numbers are guesses -- The Hamidian massacres -- The twentieth century and genocide -- The political issues -- Greek genocide -- Assyrian and Armenian genocides -- Post-world war I -- What about an Assyrian homeland? -- The Hakkari and Simele massacres -- Where could they settle? -- World war II through the turn of the century -- Arab nationalism -- The Nazi connection -- Turkey -- Iraq -- Syria and Lebanon -- Iran -- Sunday in the Middle East -- In the Koran -- The radical movements -- Attacks against Christians -- Tomorrow -- Turkey and the Hakkari mountains -- The diaspora -- Iraq -- Can the Assyrians defend themselves? -- The Nineveh plain -- What does the west need to do? |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 1463239041 |