After Mosul, what is Iraqi Christians' fate? Part 2 - FC#11

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Here is the second part of a report concerning the iraqi christians. In order to make it, I have been in Iraq.

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But an other theologian is going to claim that nor the trinity, nor the nestorianism suits him. Because he thinks that jesus is both human and holy, but that his holiness being superior to his human nature, it absorbs it. Therefore, this theologian claims that jesus has only one nature, which is holy. This theologian was called Jacob Baradeus, of course his theories were refused by the roman and Persian churches, but he had a lot of influence in the south east side of the roman empire. We call this church, which follows Jacob Baradeus: the Jacobite church.

If the jacobites are mainly in the Roman empire, the regular wars between the Roman and Persian empire and the subsequent frontiers and population movements, are going to bring some Jacobites within the Persian frontiers.

The Jacobites can not go back in the Roman Empire, and are going to settle in the nineveh plain. Here this guy was supposed to tell you something interesting, but in fact it is not really, so I turned the noise off. But still, what you see behind him is the Niniveh plain, so, where the Jacobites were around 500 AC, and where ISIL was before the battle of Mosul.

They were in places like Mar Mattai, Bartella and Qaraqosh.

The nestorians were in the Capital Baghdad of course, but also in the North, , Al Qosh, Teleskof, Batnaya and Ankawa and in the south east of Turkey.

So we get our christian communities in Iraq: the nestorians and the jacobites. But what do they speak? The elites are largely Hellenized, but not the people (video languages – History of writing system)