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Professor Michael E. Stone Receives Landau Prize for Science and Research:Humanities |
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Professor Michael Stone has a reputation as a fruitful researcher and innovator in varied fields of research in Jewish Studies. During several decades he has enriched scholarship is specialized fields of research, connected with Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Professor Stone is known in Israel and worldwide as a superb philologian, who can extract the exact meaning of entire works and fragmentary documents from the nooks and crannies of the past. He is also considered the most senior of the scholars of Armenia of this generation. During decades of careful and energetic scholarly work, he has published previously unknown Armenian manuscripts, many from the great collection of Armenian manuscripts in Jerusalem. Likewise he has published the corpus of Armenian inscriptions that pilgrims from Armenia left behind them on the way to the Holy Places in Sinai and in the Land of Israel. These two projects are pioneering in character and initiated new directions of research. At the same time Professor Stone established
the full range of Armenian Studies at the Hebrew University, and created
a network of mutually fruitful scholarly relations between Armenian
Studies and Jewish Studies of the Second Temple Period (including study
of the Dead Sea Scrolls), Classical Studies, and more. |
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