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Mar-12-2002 at 06:06 PM (UTC+3 Nineveh, Assyria)

Paul, I appreciate your endeavour to clearify for us the basic aramaic conceptions (notions). But I am afraid that trying to understand the meaning of three aramaic words (kyana, qnoma, parsopa) in this way better, we are building the new greek-mind-conceptions (notions, ideas)... Because even if we are using aramaic or another semitic language, to the transliterated words we join the greek conceptions (ideas and meanings). So it seems to be helpfull, but isnt it the Trojan horse?

Id prefered try to understand the meaning of this words in life or historical context, existencialy, to be viewed concretely and we get in touch with them... So one have to put away his or her greek glasses and being for a while blind start to seek aramaic ones
I would expect your help in this way (to open our eyes, point out places where this notions could be seen in aramaic way)
This is my opinion as I understood something about Hebrew (which is close to Aramaic)

Ancient Hebrew Research Center: In the world, past and present, there are two major types of cultures; the Hebrew (or eastern) culture and the Greek (or western) culture. Both of these cultures view their surroundings, lives, and purpose in ways which would seem foreign to the other.... Greek thought views the world through the mind (abstract thought). Ancient Hebrew thought views the world through the senses (concrete thought) Greek thought describes objects in relation to its appearance. Hebrew thought describes objects in relation to its function. The Greek culture describes objects in relation to the object itself. The Hebrew culture describes objects in relation to the Hebrew himself Greek nouns are words which refer to a person, place or thing. Hebrew nouns refer to the action of a person, place or thing)
As I learned, on the end of Greek thought (thinking) is conception (notion) but on the end of Hebrew is action, isnt it?
Thanks!
Laco


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Assyria \ã-'sir-é-ä\ n (1998)   1:  an ancient empire of Ashur   2:  a democratic state in Bet-Nahren, Assyria (northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, southeastern Turkey and eastern Syria.)   3:  a democratic state that fosters the social and political rights to all of its inhabitants irrespective of their religion, race, or gender   4:  a democratic state that believes in the freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture in faithfulness to the principles of the United Nations Charter — Atour synonym

Ethnicity, Religion, Language
» Israeli, Jewish, Hebrew
» Assyrian, Christian, Aramaic
» Saudi Arabian, Muslim, Arabic
Assyrian \ã-'sir-é-an\ adj or n (1998)   1:  descendants of the ancient empire of Ashur   2:  the Assyrians, although representing but one single nation as the direct heirs of the ancient Assyrian Empire, are now doctrinally divided, inter sese, into five principle ecclesiastically designated religious sects with their corresponding hierarchies and distinct church governments, namely, Church of the East, Chaldean, Maronite, Syriac Orthodox and Syriac Catholic.  These formal divisions had their origin in the 5th century of the Christian Era.  No one can coherently understand the Assyrians as a whole until he can distinguish that which is religion or church from that which is nation -- a matter which is particularly difficult for the people from the western world to understand; for in the East, by force of circumstances beyond their control, religion has been made, from time immemorial, virtually into a criterion of nationality.   3:  the Assyrians have been referred to as Aramaean, Aramaye, Ashuraya, Ashureen, Ashuri, Ashuroyo, Assyrio-Chaldean, Aturaya, Chaldean, Chaldo, ChaldoAssyrian, ChaldoAssyrio, Jacobite, Kaldany, Kaldu, Kasdu, Malabar, Maronite, Maronaya, Nestorian, Nestornaye, Oromoye, Suraya, Syriac, Syrian, Syriani, Suryoye, Suryoyo and Telkeffee. — Assyrianism verb

Aramaic \ar-é-'máik\ n (1998)   1:  a Semitic language which became the lingua franca of the Middle East during the ancient Assyrian empire.   2:  has been referred to as Neo-Aramaic, Neo-Syriac, Classical Syriac, Syriac, Suryoyo, Swadaya and Turoyo.

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