Review: Fr. Andrew Younan’s Article “Chaldeans and Assyrians in the Middle Ages”
Last week, I had an opportunity to read Fr. Andrew Younan’s latest blog post titled Chaldeans and Assyrians in the Middle Ages (April 2, 2024). At first glance, the title of his article caught my interest. As I am deeply passionate about this topic, I thought It’d be appropriate to post a review where I will draw particular emphasis on Fr. Younan's portrayal of the "Chaldean" cultural identity. I was intrigued to find that Fr. Younan had come across some “rare references” and was curious to see what his findings were. Fr. Younan’s article promised to offer his readers some insight into the ethnic terminologies associated with members of the historic Church of the East and who lived in Mesopotamia from 500–1500 AD. He begins by explaining that during this period, our people did not care as much about ethnicity as we do today. Fr. Younan argued that instead, our people either associated themselves with the empires in which they belonged to (i.e., Persian Empire) ...