Dionysius Jacob Bar Salibi

 (d. 1171)

"Because of hatred they (the Greeks) call us Jacobites instead of Syrians and we answer and say that the name Syrian by which you do not call us anymore does not rank before the honorable name because this name is derived from Syrus, who ruled over Antiochia and after him the land was named Syria...however we are the descendants of Aram and from his name we were called in ancient times by the name Arameans."

 

(Bishop J.E. Manna, Aramaic-Arabic Dictionary, Babel Center Publications. Beirut 1915, p. 11-21)