11-21-2013, 04:45 AM
ScorpioSniper2 Wrote:The idea that the Assyrian Christians, who spoke Syriac Aramaic, surely would have been left without the New Testament writings by the Judean and Galilean Aramaic speaking Jewish Apostles is completely ridiculous.
Really, it's the "Syriac" speaking Jews of Arbela, Edessa, Harran, Adiabene and Babylon they went to evangelize first.
Assyrians, Chaldeans and Arameans in those areas just happened to speak the same dialect as their Jewish neighbors. And that's true to this very day. There are many "Syriac" speaking Jews in Israel today.
The Churches in the East, like the West, grew out of those missions and expanded to us "Semitic Gentiles". Strange term, I know, but we *do* exist, and we outnumber the "Semitic non-Gentiles". <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/wink1.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s -->
+Shamasha