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[Get Real!]

According to Acts 4:36 Barnabas was a Cypriot Jew.

So how come the bible doesn't call him a "Greek Cypriot Jew"?

And btw, if Barnabas who was active circa 50AD was not considered a “Greek Cypriot” how come YOU became one in the 20th century?

[Sotos]

According to Acts 4:36 Barnabas was a Cypriot Jew.

So how come the bible doesn't call him a "Greek Cypriot Jew"?

Because he was not Greek. The Jews are not just a religious group as you think.

The Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3 Yehudim, Israeli pronunciation [jehuˈdim]), also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious[21] and ethno-cultural group[22] descended from the Israelites of the Ancient Near East[23][24][25][26][27][28][29] and originating from the historical kingdoms of Israel and Judah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews

[Get Real!]

So how did YOU become a "Greek Cypriot"?

At which stage exactly did you acquire "Greekness" that Barnabas could not!

[Get Real!]

Q. What do you do when you can’t find ancient inscriptions in Greek but in Cypriot?

A. Call them “Greek inscriptions” written in other bad/expired/unused (<-- ironic ) alphabets!

EUREKA!!!!

[Get Real!]

Sadly, the systematic attempt to eradicate both the ancient and modern Cypriot culture is perhaps the longest running genocide against Cypriots conducted by our “best friends” the filthy Balkan gypsies they call Greeks.

Imagine what would’ve happened to Cypriotness had the filthy Greeks gotten their way in 1974!

Just imagine…

[Sotos]

Sadly (for you) you lost the argument You are less educated than a gypsy and what you write is nonsense.

[Get Real!]

Sadly (for you) you lost the argument You are less educated than a gypsy and what you write is nonsense.

That’s exactly what I think of your input Sotos… as they say in Greek “faskis tsie antifaskis”!

That Barnabas could not be “Greek” because he was a Jew was perhaps the icing on the cake!

[Sotos]

So you can say in Greek “faskis tsie antifaskis”, even though you wrote that with Latin characters? How ironic! Barnabas was FROM Cyprus but his ETHNICITY was NOT Cypriot because such ethnicity did not exist, now or then. He COULD be Greek, because Greeks are an actual ethnicity, but if you go by what the bible says then:

Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s ... ersion=NIV

In Jewish tradition, a Levite (/ˈliːvaɪt/, Hebrew: לֵוִי, Modern Levi, Tiberian Lēwî ; "Attached") is a member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi, descended from Levi, the third son of Jacob and Leah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levite

So Get Real ... are you going to dismiss another of your own sources? Because according to you everybody from Cyprus must be of the "Cypriot ethnicity"... and the bible doesn't seem to agree with you.

[kurupetos]

Still cannot figure out the evidentiary value of that list of words.

Obviously our Hirokitian ancestors did not wear Pattalonia, the word came into use after the adoption of trousers in the 19th century as the main male garment, and in any case it was initially called Chattali.

Shipettos is also a uniquely Cypriot term, used only by us and no other Greek locality. Hardly a Cypriot word though, in Italian Schiopetto is a little explosion, and in the south of Italy, in their dialect, it is pronounnced Shopetto, from which we got Shipetto and in Spain it was corrupted to Escopeta and claimed as a "Basque" word by their equivalents of GR.

The use of an Italian word for shotgun in Cyprus is fascinating considering the Venetians left in 1571 and the word survived three hundred years of Ottoman presence. Fascinating also because in Greek they call it toufeki, or tsiftes (for double barreled shotguns), both Turkish words, and do not recognise the word shipettos. Strange also that we would retain a southern Italian word and not a northern, (Venetian or Genoan) one, there they call a shotgun doppietta.

The Mediterranean is probably not the best place to try to lay claim to racial or linguistic purity.

Only a delusional fool, like GR, would think that he has Shirokitian ancestors!

Chirokitians went extinct long time before the period that GR is talking about. Those people in 1500BC were different groups of people that came to Cyprus some 1000s of years after the Chirokitians. They are probably also our ancestors from a genetic point of view but NOT linguistically. Our language has nothing to do with theirs. Such people lived everywhere ... humans existed on earth for over 100.000 years. So nothing special about Cyprus in this regard. On mainland Greece and other Greek islands there have also been pre-Greek populations... most famous of which is the Minoan civilization of Crete... which was far more advanced than what we had in Cyprus at the time.

I know mate, but GR! will never learn. Poor sod.

[kurupetos]

Still cannot figure out the evidentiary value of that list of words.

Obviously our Hirokitian ancestors did not wear Pattalonia, the word came into use after the adoption of trousers in the 19th century as the main male garment, and in any case it was initially called Chattali.

Shipettos is also a uniquely Cypriot term, used only by us and no other Greek locality. Hardly a Cypriot word though, in Italian Schiopetto is a little explosion, and in the south of Italy, in their dialect, it is pronounnced Shopetto, from which we got Shipetto and in Spain it was corrupted to Escopeta and claimed as a "Basque" word by their equivalents of GR.

The use of an Italian word for shotgun in Cyprus is fascinating considering the Venetians left in 1571 and the word survived three hundred years of Ottoman presence. Fascinating also because in Greek they call it toufeki, or tsiftes (for double barreled shotguns), both Turkish words, and do not recognise the word shipettos. Strange also that we would retain a southern Italian word and not a northern, (Venetian or Genoan) one, there they call a shotgun doppietta.

The Mediterranean is probably not the best place to try to lay claim to racial or linguistic purity.

Only a delusional fool, like GR, would think that he has Shirokitian ancestors!

Ahem... me too Choirokitian.

We Choirokitians need to distinguish ourselves from the Balkan Slavic hordes.

You are a koala... different species!