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Title

The Armenian apocalyptic tradition : a comparative perspective : essays presented in honor of Professor Robert W. Thomson on the occasion of his eightieth birthday / edited by Kevork B. Bardakjian and Sergio La Porta.

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bardakjian, Kevork B.
• La Porta, Sergio
• Thomson, Robert W., 1934-

Description

xx, 797 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Series Statement

Studia in Veteris Testamenti pseudepigrapha, 0169-8125 ; volume 25

Uniform Title

Studia in Veteris Testamenti pseudepigrapha ; v. 25.

Subject

• Apocalyptic literature > History and criticism > Congresses
• Christian literature, Armenian > History and criticism > Congresses
• Christian saints > Armenia > Biography > Congresses. > History and criticism
• Apocalyptic literature > Congresses
• Apocalypse in literature > Congresses
• Armenia > Civilization > Congresses

Note

• Papers presented at two international conferences. The first was held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in June, 2007; the second was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in October, 2008.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

• Twenty-nine contributions in English and 1 in French. Includes some text in Armenian.

Contents

• The origin and legacy of the Jewish apocalyptic tradition / Gabriele Boccaccini -- Jewish apocalyptic literature in the Armenian tradition / Michael E. Stone -- The Epic of Sasun : Armenian apocalypse / James R. Russell -- The reception of the Book of Daniel in late ancient and medieval Armenian society / S. Peter Cowe -- The Armenian Seventh Vision of Daniel and the historical apocalyptica of late antiquity / Lorenzo DiTommaso -- Enoch in Armenian apocrypha / Annette Yoshiko Reed -- The Georgian Nimrod / Stephen H. Rapp, Jr. -- Geometry and contemplation : the architecture of Vardan Anecʻi's vision of the throne-chariot : theosis and the art of memory in Armenia / Theo Maarten van Lint -- The reception of the biblical Book of Revelation in Armenia / Robert W. Thomson -- Armenian witnesses of three eschatological motifs / Jean-Marc Rosenstiehl -- The Vision of Saint Gregory and its interpretations / Robert W. Thomson -- The Vision of St. Grigor Lusaworičʻ and the role of apocalyptic in the conversion of Armenia / Sergio La Porta -- The Vision of St. Sahak in the History of Łazar Pʻarpecʻi / Gohar Muradyan.
• The Visions of Grigor and Sahak Partʻew : Old Georgian versions and their reflection in Georgian sources / Zaza Aleksidze -- Medieval Armenian apocalypticism in context / Anders Hultgård -- The Armenian version of the Apocalypse of Ps.-Methodius / Aram Topchyan -- Apocalypticizing warfare : from political theology to imperial eschatology in seventh- to early eighth-century Byzantium / Yuri Stoyanov -- The Visions of Grigor Narekacʻi / Hrachya Tamrazyan -- The last emperor or the last Armenian king? : some considerations on Armenian apocalyptic literature from the Cilician period / Zaroui Pogossian -- Varden Aygekcʻi's Counsel and the medieval Armenian apocalyptic tradition / Sergio La Porta -- Apocalyptic traditions in the Armenian Dormition narratives / Stephen J. Shoemaker -- Sundials and medieval Armenian architecture / Christina Maranci -- Voir Dieu : l'iconographie arménienne de la Vision du Trône d'Ezéchiel dans le contexte de l'art de l'Orient chrétien / Edda Vardanyan -- Illuminating the Apocalypse in seventeenth-century Armenian manuscripts: the transition from printed book to manuscript / Sylvie L. Merian.
• "And behold a door was opened in heaven" : vision and visual strategies in three vernacular apocalypses from fourteenth-century England / Renana Bartal -- Burn the world down : Manichaean apocalyptic in comparative perspective / Timothy Pettipiece -- Syriac apocalyptic literature / Witold Witakowski -- 'Orthodox' faith and political legitimization of a 'Solomonic' dynasty of rulers in the Ethiopic Kebra Nagast / Pierluigi Piovanelli -- Historical apocalypses in medieval Bulgarian literature (10th-14th centuries) / Anissava Miltenova -- Armenian apocalyptica and medieval apocalypticism: some reflections / Lorenzo DiTommaso.

Call Number

JFE 15-7721

ISBN

• 9004270248
• 9789004270244
• 9789004270268 (canceled/invalid)

ISSN

0169-8125

LCCN

2015451108

OCLC

872222363

Title

The Armenian apocalyptic tradition : a comparative perspective : essays presented in honor of Professor Robert W. Thomson on the occasion of his eightieth birthday / edited by Kevork B. Bardakjian and Sergio La Porta.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studia in Veteris Testamenti pseudepigrapha, 0169-8125 ; volume 25

Studia in Veteris Testamenti pseudepigrapha ; v. 25.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language

Twenty-nine contributions in English and 1 in French. Includes some text in Armenian.

Added Author

Bardakjian, Kevork B., editor.

La Porta, Sergio, editor.

Thomson, Robert W., 1934- honouree.

Other Form:

(GyWOH)har145012395

Online version: Armenian apocalyptic tradition. Leiden : Boston : Brill, [2014] 9789004270268 (OCoLC)884538105

Research Call Number

JFE 15-7721