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Catholic scholarship and Aramaic
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oozeaddai Wrote:
Paul Younan Wrote:
bar_khela Wrote:Heheheh.

Arabic has got nothing on Hebrew, let alone Aramaic....both of which were already highly developed by the time the Arabs became literate.

It's just the truth.


Well Islamic literature and culture owes its heritage to Aramaic Christians and Jews.


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Not really. It was under the Islamic rule that Aramaic Christians and Jews were able to flourish, especially after the fall of the oppressive Byzantines. Christians were liberated from the Byzantines by Muslims.

When the Arab Muslims marched into Syria they were welcomed by the Syrians who saw the new rulers as saviors who freed them from the yoke of the Byzantines because the Byzantines tried by force to assimilate them into the Byzantine Church. This was the church of the empire and membership in it would have meant compulsorily acceptance of the resolutions of Chalcedon: that Christ had two natures, the human eating, drinking and feeling pain and the divine making miracles. This would have been a denial of the dogma of their church fathers. The Syrians were also able through the cooperation with the Arab Muslims to retain their ecclesiastical dogma, the Antiochian See, their churches, monasteries, ecclesiastical inheritance and their liturgy.

The Position of the Syrians Toward the Islamic Conquest >From the above it becomes clear that the religious conflicts in the Christian church, the attempts of the Byzantine powers to force the issues of the council of Chalcedon upon the other churches by force, to throw its members in prison, to kill them, to ban them and to drive them out alienated the Syrian Christians. All these unchristian deeds only sowed hate and aversion in the hearts of the Syrians against the Byzantine powers. The Persian powers in their empire oppressed both West and East Syrians in general to force them under tyrannical policies and Zoroastrian beliefs. Therefore the Syrians under the Byzantine and Persian powers saw the Islamic conquerors as liberators and not as occupiers. The Syrians put great hope in them, not only because the Muslims liberated them from their religious trouble but also because they relieved the Syrians of the burdensome taxes that were placed on their backs. They said, "Praise be to God, who delivered us from the unjust Byzantines and who put us under the rule of the just Muslim Arabs."http://www.syrianorthodoxchurch.org/libr...istory.htm

Arabic does owe the Assyrians its script. However, its literature and culture was influenced by many because of the translation of ancient manuscripts at the Bayt al-Hikmah (many of which were translated by an Assyrian Christian). In that sense, yes, you're right.
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Catholic scholarship and Aramaic - by oozeaddai - 10-29-2004, 07:46 PM
Blessed are the poor in spirit - by gbausc - 10-29-2004, 09:45 PM
Should've learned Arabic - by bar_khela - 11-01-2004, 04:12 PM
Re: Should've learned Arabic - by Paul Younan - 11-01-2004, 04:26 PM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-01-2004, 04:57 PM
Bare knuckles - by bar_khela - 11-01-2004, 05:01 PM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-01-2004, 05:01 PM
[No subject] - by bar_khela - 11-01-2004, 05:12 PM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-01-2004, 05:15 PM
Re: Should've learned Arabic - by bar_khela - 11-01-2004, 05:19 PM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-01-2004, 05:25 PM
Re: Should've learned Arabic - by Paul Younan - 11-01-2004, 05:30 PM
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