I have one question, how sure are you that syriac orthodox members of the past and today are mainly assyrian, when l talked to svante lundgren and author about ancient and modern assyrians he said " Are the suryoye Assyrians or Aramaens? I would say both. They certainly have their origins in the ancient Assyrian Empire and there is definitely an Aramaen element in their tradition.", so maybe suryoye are assyrians that have been influenced by arameans and the same about suryaye? Of all the church fathers of the past before 1800 ad they all said we are arameans, ephraim the syrian, and many others, on exception is michael the great who said we are both aramean and assyrian. I don't know about this subject because it's complicated, should we trust our church fathers? Why would mor afrem call himself and his people arameans? was he an aramean, are syriacs arameans, how can you be so sure that we are assyrians? maybe we are both? there are so many questiions that l don't know, when l talk to a syriac-aramean he says about what other people called us and they called us arameans and assyrians throughout time, and what our church fathers called us in ancient times, and they called us arameans, especially the syriac orthodox church churchfathers. I am trying to be neutral as much as possible but i don't know about this, l am just here to find help and don't know anyone who are expert in this subject. I am asking for help so to make me understand this better......