(09/05/06)

Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Armenian Studies:
Collected Papers Vol I & II

These volumes comprise a collection of papers by Michael E. Stone, written over a period of 35 years. Stone is a leading scholar in two different fields of research, the Jewish literature of the Second Temple period including the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Armenian Studies. So this collection includes essays relating to the origins and nature of the Apocryphal literature and its relationship with the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as more specific studies devoted to themes that have interested Stone throughout his career, including Messianism, 4 Ezra, Adam and Eve, and Aramaic Levi Document. His Armenian interests have embraced the Armenian Biblical text, Armenian pilgrimage to and presence in the Holy Land and Armenian paleography and epigraphy. Papers included in the volumes, some of which were originally published in obscure venues, touch on all these themes. A number of previously unpublished papers are included.

Volume I and Volume II are available from Peeters Publishers.

The Problem of the Greek Sources of Movses Xorenac'i's
«History of Armenia»

Series: Hebrew University Armenian Studies #7
Pages: X-145 p.

Author: Topchyan, A.

Summary:
One of the most important and disputed spheres of research on the «History of Armenia» by "the father of Armenian historiography" Movses Xorenac'i is the issue of his literary sources. The study of Xorenac'i's «History» since the latter half of the nineteenth century led to varied and often diametrically opposed views; scholars ended up with either an outright denial of the historiographic value of Movses' book or unreserved acceptance of everything he says. Thus, the source study today requires an especially circumspect and nuanced understanding. A number of questions need to be clarified and re-assessed in relation to Xorenac'i's "Greek" sources. The author of the present study has re-examined in detail the references to Berossus (third century BC), Alexander Polyhistor (first century BC), Cephalion (first - second centuries AD), Abydenus (first or second century AD), Julius Africanus (second - third centuries AD), and Bishop Firmilian (third century AD). From his study he has drawn conclusions that call for a modification of earlier over-simplified opinions.

Dr. Aram Topchyan was a visitor to the Armenian Studies program at the Hebrew University Jerusalem two years ago and is a Senior Researcher at the Matenadaran, Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan.

ISBN: 90-429-1662-1

To purchase the book, please click on the following link: Peeters Publishers

(27/03/06)

Physiologus

The Greek and Armenian Versions
with a Study of Translation Technique