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ἀνέκδοτα · things not given out
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IdentityFebruary 2026
The Name That Names an Empire
An examination of how the vocabulary of Assyrian identity was assembled from missionary education, colonial utility, and ethno-nationalist projects, producing a category that names an empire where an ethnos should be.
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The modern Assyrian identity claim rests on a specific proposition: that Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Syriacs are ethnically one people, divided only by church affiliation, and that t...