Talk:Ashkenaz

message: This entire page seems speculative, random, and dubious.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.62.249.129 (talk) 23:57, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
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message: You should add this:
    Ashkenaz (Princedom of Ash(es))
    Ash - Kenaz
    - Ash(es) = Ass(es)
    - Kenaz tur. Princedom (principality)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.11.1.64 (talk) 20:20, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I assume you are posting in good faith, but what in the world are you talking about?  Also remember any information added should be verifiable. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 22:30, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ashkenaz 

message: It isn't Jews promoting such theories.  It's that type of crackpot who likes mixing nationalism with religious destiny.  Essentially it's an attempt to render the Jews irrelevant by claiming all Christian Europeans are really lost tribes of Israel.  
The Romans tried doing the same thing to the Greeks when they claimed to be Trojans.  Of course nobody would know anything about any of these tribes if the Greeks and Hebrews hadn't bothered to write about them.  
Considering how many names in Assyrian records start with an Ash- there is no reason to connect the names to the Scythians of Herodotus.  The Ashkenazi province of Urartia is not necessarily connected either.  Askuza might be a Median tribe whose name means "spirit-of-hounds" or something.  Ashkasi might mean "spears of truth" or "elevated hunters".  
Since it is related to a tribe whose name translates to "completion", the Biblical name might come from Urartian: "Ashe-gun-asini", complete army.
I would like to give you a dose of reality in case your idea of Jews comes from Woody Allen or something.  Maybe you think a Jew on horseback is gonna be all nerdy, saying "oy vey" and stuff.  If so I invite you to get your ass kicked.
Most Jewish deportees learned an Iranian language and I'm sure some fell in with nomadic tribes.  The Pashtun people of Afganistan have long claimed Jewish ancestry, as did several ruling tribes of Alans.  Georgians, Armenians, Circassians, and Chechens all associated with Jews since way back when.  The Kuifang Jews of China live in the same location as one of the earliest Turkic groups, Guifang.  Assyrians and Persians both used Jewish cavalry archers frequently.
Give us Jews some peace.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.139.77.194 (talk) 17:56, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Amen! 172.58.125.174 (talk) 16:22, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
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