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A Letter from Mor Yuhanon Dolabani to the Musician Gabriel Assad

“Music is an art form that all nations possess, even the insignificant ones. The Syriac-Arameans, have practiced this art since time immemorial.” ("إن الموسيقى فن من فنون الآدباء، ولا تخلو منه أمة تعيش على وجهه البسيطة مهما كانت وضيعة. وقد مارسه السريان الآراميون منذ أقدم العصور القديمة.") From a letter to the musician Gabriel Assad (about Syriac music), Mor Yuhanon Dolabani uses the name "the Syriac-Arameans."

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A letter regarding the translation of Berule bdhire

"I am engaged in publishing the book Berule bedhire, which is the history of our scholars up to the present day. I have sent the manuscript to Qamishli to be printed there in a fine manner. If God helps and the book is completed, I will send you a copy so that you may develop in the Syriac language and gain a complete knowledge of the history of our Aramean authors." From a letter dated to December 6, 1965 to Dr. Aho Hadodo who lives in Switzerland, in which Dolabani informs him about his translation of the book Berule bdhire on the history of Syriac literature by Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem I Barsoum, and how it is ready and will be published in Qamishli. Dr. Aho was a high school student in the city of Mardin in the early 1960s, he lived for three years with other students in the bishop's residence with Bishop Mor Yuhanon Dolabani and under his guidance.

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Kthobo d-Deburitho

"My dear and beloved Aramean, in many ways I am indebted to you on account of the racial love of Adam and the Semitic one of Aram (that burns in my heart)." "I think, my dear one, ... that you long for the Aramaic tongue, the tongue which my ancestors spoke – the lordly and ancient language. That (language) in which our Lord spoke when he was dwelling on the earth."

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Kthobo d-Deburitho

"And as a careful examination by scholars (shows), the art of writing was a discovery of the Arameans; and among those who received it were the Greeks and the Romans, and the Saracens (i.e. Arabs), and the Persians, and the Armenians. Therefore, for the Arameans it is a blessing without equal among all mankind."

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Kthobo d-Deburitho

"Aramean teachers give advice about this and say: do not talk too much, neither words of wisdom"

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Kthobo d-Deburitho

"With the help of our Lord I have arrived at the end. And as a miracle provides the sweetness of the essence of the Arameandom (Aramean nation), I have arranged (only) the beginnings for you (and) I ask you to be very careful with it."

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Kthobo d-Egrothe d-David Bar Faulus

"All who love the Arameandom (Aramean nation) are eager to familiarize themselves concerning his instruction."

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Poems of Bar Maʿdani

"For the benefit of those who love the Arameandom, we were careful to publish this book of memre and verse homilies of Mor Yuhanon Bar Ma‘dani." In the preface to Mimre d-Bar Maʿdani, Mor Philoxenos Yuhanon Dolabani writes that he is publishing the memre and verse homilies for those who love the Aramean nation—that is, the nation with which he identified.

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Visiting the Diocese of Tur Abdin

"In this year, when I was visiting the diocese of Tur Abdin, some brothers asked me to translate this article into Syriac and publish it for the benefit of our Aramean readers. Their request pleased me, and as soon as I reached my place, I fulfilled their wish, translating the article into Aramaic and making such corrections as were appropriate for the language."