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Hello Mary!
Tuesday October 08 1996 16:12, Mary Riemerman wrote to Steve Haisha:
 MR> Hi Steve;
 SH>> Title: Ras Asfoor ( Potatoes and MeatBalls ) Categories: Chaldean
 MR> I am going to go ahead and show my ignorance. The recipes look really
 MR> luscious but I have no idea what Chaldean might be. Would you please
 MR> enlighten me?
        Well, I guess I should have done this from the beginning ... I just 
thought I would have bored everyone to death. 
        My people stem back to pre-biblical times, about 850 B.C. . I'm 
assuming you have heard the name " Babylon " before in the Bible, Chaldeans 
were the native people of that region, roughly located around the lower 
courses of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; The area was known at that time 
as Mesopotamia, which is today modern Iraq. Our language is what is known as 
the Aramaic language, this is the language that Jesus and his disciples 
spoke. Chaldeans are now Catholic, if you were also wondering ...  This is a 
real brief overview of what a Chaldean is but I'm trying to keep it short, if 
you are still interested, I can supply you with more information.
       /r
      Steve
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