User talk:Djwilms/Archive 5

New Church of the East edits
Hey Djwilms, it's been a while. I know you're not terribly active right now, but if you get a chance could you review these edits at Church of the East? They look mostly fine to me, if unnecessarily detailed. A few of the new sources aren't going to work, like the outdated Catholic Encyclopedia. If you could clean it up, perhaps citing your own book, it would be much appreciated.--Cúchullain t/ c 16:13, 23 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi there,
 * I'm so out of practice I've forgotten how to indent a reply. Ah yes, that's it.  The edits look fine to me.  I try to stay out of the quicksands of the Wikipedia articles on the Assyrians these days, as I have found that it's far quicker to write my own books and hope that they eventually get cited than get drawn into an interminable argument with the nationalist headbangers; but I'll see if I can find some time to clean up the source references.
 * I'm presently writing a book on Christianity in Roman Africa, and trying to localise the 750 odd dioceses there. There is a major problem as to what happened to them during the Arab invasions.  The Arabs seem to have been far harsher than they were in Syria and Iraq.  In any event, it took less than a century for them to efface Christianity completely from what used to be the most flourishing provinces of the Roman Empire.
 * Djwilms (talk) 31 January 2017 (UTC)

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Assyrian continuity
I see you've encountered the anonymous user at Assyrian continuity. As you know he's an ardent nationalist who aims to discredit the majority of scholarship rejecting continuity claims. I have reverted his inaccurate description of Syriacists as "theologians" before, with the typical false implication that the only "deniers" of continuity are basing their arguments off the Bible, but he is persistent. (check our discussion on the talk) Your presence makes me hopeful that changes can be made for the better, so I reverted to a version of the article where I took out unreliable nationalist sources and original research and added mainstream critical sources. Anyway I think this page and the entire Wikiproject Assyria could seriously benefit from your insight, as I am merely a passing autodidact.--Monochrome _ Monitor  10:07, 31 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the encouragement. I might get back in by posting factual stuff about dioceses where there's little scope for differences of opinion over interpretation, but I doubt if I will ever edit again on the lavish scale I used to a few years back.  Life is too short ...


 * Djwilms (talk) 10 February 2017 (UTC)

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