Get Real! wrote:GR’s Conclusion:
My objective was to investigate if there was a special relationship or any significant association between the ancient Cypriots and ancient Greeks from the biblical perspective.
Now whether or not the Bible is the actual word of God is besides the point here because at the very least it’s scientifically proven and accepted that the contents of the old and new testaments are indeed the ancient writings of people who roamed the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean over a period of nearly two millenniums (1400BC..300AD), so how these ancient people PERCEIVED their surroundings is indeed highly relevant to our research.
Well known narratives such as “Cyprus was Greek”, “Mycenaeans colonized Cyprus”, and similar notions that lump Cyprus and Cypriots into a “Greater Greece” that diminish the sovereignty, uniqueness, and overall identity of Cypriots and Cyprus from the biblical times, are quite simply NOT SUPPORTED by the writings in the Bible in any way or form!
If anything, the biblical writings treat Cypriots and Greeks as two distinct people and indeed have much to say about the activities of the ancient Cypriots as travelers to and from the Middle East, their liaisons with the ancient Jews, and their subsequent pioneering efforts to spread the teachings of the Bible to other people and other lands including that of Greeks!
All these things suggest an articulate and well educated people who possessed a uniform language, culture, and religion, taking the initiative to influence others so the notion that they were subservient to a greater “Ethnic Greek” group is just totally unfounded!
All this of course opens a HUGE can of worms by directly challenging the “Mycenaean colonization” allegation onto which everything “Greek” on Cyprus rests!
Well Australia and the US, as 2 separate examples, have origins which are predominately, British, Irish and even German. They still developed their own unique culture and identity to encompass
all people.
Cypriots, no doubt, have significant Hellenic origins as Australians and Americans have predominately British origins. This is undisputed!
Cypriots still need to develop and maintain a completely Cypriot identity, without necessarily abandoning their history. This is what has been achieved in other countries and should be achieved in Cyprus.
I will have to agree with Oracle on this, because your argument does not stand or make any sense!
