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To: Thomas M. who wrote (2357)	7/15/2001 4:51:17 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

SOURCES OF ASSYRO-BABYLONIAN HISTORY These may be grouped as: (1) the Old Testament; (2) the Greek, Latin, and Oriental writers, and (3) the monumental records and remains of the Assyrians and Babylonians themselves. In the first division belong the Fourth (in Authorized Version, Second) Book of Kings, Paralipomenon (Chronicles), the writings of the prophets Isaias, Nahum, Jeremias, Jonas, Ezechiel, and Daniel, as well as the Iaconic but extremely valuable fragments of information contained in Genesis, x, xi, and xiv. To the second group of sources belong the Chaldeo-Babylonian priest and historian Berosus, who lived in the days of Alexander the great (356-323 B.C.) and continued to live at least as late as Antiochus I, Soter (280-261 B.C.). He wrote in Greek a great work on Babylonian history, under the title of "Babyloniaca", or "Chaldaica". This valuable work, which was based on contemporary Babylonian monuments and inscriptions has unfortunately perished, and only a few excerpts from it have been preserved in later Greek and Latin writers. Then we have the writings of Polyhistor, Ctesias, Herodotus, Abydenus, Apollodorus, Alexander of Miletus, Josephus, Georgius Syncellus, Diodorus Siculus, Eusebius, and others. With the exception of Berosus, the information derived from all the above-mentioned historians is mostly legendary and unreliable, and even their quotations from Berosus are to be used with caution. This is especially true in the case of Ctesias, who lived at the Persian court in Babylonia. To the third category belong the numerous contemporary monuments and inscriptions discovered during the last fifty years in Babylonia, Assyria, Elam, and Egypt, which form an excellent and a most authoritative collection of historical documents. newadvent.org

To: Thomas M. who wrote (2357)	7/15/2001 4:57:59 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

More than 80 Turkish journalists, academics and writers have been imprisoned for speaking out on the Kurdish issue. One of the more prominent people to be carted off to the slammer in 1999 was Akin Birdal, head of Turkey's Human Rights Association (HRA). Birdal has had a rough time as head of the HRA. In 1998, two men walked into his office and shot him six times after the military leaked a report saying he was in the pay of the PKK. The supposed source of this much-vaunted report? Why, none other than that paragon of virtue and reliable info, step forward . . . Semdin Sakik, as "Fingerless Zeki," the forcibly retired former PKK commander of Tunceli province who was captured in northern Iraq in 1998. Birdal's most recent crime was to call for dialogue in solving the Kurdish question in the southeast. That got him nine and a half months for "incitement to racial hatred." After Apo got himself slung in the cop-shop, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs introduced a new set of literary guidelines to help the Turkish press in its coverage of the PKK and Apo saga. The PKK were to be referred to as a "criminal gang." Ocalan had to have the prefix "terrorist," villages that had been torched by the military had in fact been "evacuated," and Kurds had to be called "Turkish citizens of eastern origin." comebackalive.com