scholars who have studied the Armenian Song of Songs - 1666-2016 book authors

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Scholars who have studied the Armenian Song of Songs focus primarily on its unique classical translation and the deep medieval commentaries it inspired. The Armenian text contains several unique verses and variations absent from the Hebrew or Septuagint versions, making it a distinct area of biblical and patristic research. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Key scholars and their specific contributions to this field include:
  • Roberta Ervine: A prominent scholar of Armenian Christianity who translated and analyzed Gregory of Narek's historic work. Her book, The Blessing of Blessings: Grigor of Narek's Commentary on the Song of Songs, provides English translation and analysis of the 10th-century exegesis. [1, 2]

  • Robert W. Thomson: A highly regarded historian and translator of classical Armenian texts. He published foundational studies and translations of early and medieval Armenian commentaries on the Song of Songs, including the texts of Gregory of Narek and Vardan Arewelts'i. [1, 2, 3, 4]

  • Krikor Maksoudian: An Armenologist who has studied the theological ambiguity and canonicity of the appended verses in the Armenian version of the Song of Songs. [1, 2, 3]
Would you like to know more about the theological differences between the Armenian version of the text and the Western monastic interpretations, or are you looking for specific translations to read?
 
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University of Toronto, Department of Near Eastern Studies, 1973-79: M.A. 1974; Ph.D. 1979; thesis:
“The Textual Character of the Armenian Version of Deuteronomy” (Director: J.W. Wevers);
Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenian SSR, 1977-78;
Harvard University 1976-77;
Union Theological Seminary in Virginia 1972-73,
Th.M.; Knox College, Toronto 1970-72,
M.Div.; Abilene Christian University 1966-70, B.A. 1969

2018
1666-2016
p. 16-33
Claude Cox, Oskan Yerevantsi and his Edition of the Bible (1666), revisited (in English).

Oskan Yerevantsi (1614–1674) was a prominent Armenian clergyman and publisher who produced the first printed edition of the complete Armenian Bible. Completed in Amsterdam between 1666 and 1668, the massive, two-column volume is a cornerstone of Armenian cultural and religious heritage. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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Encyclical of His Holiness Garekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the first Armenian printed Bible ......11

Gevorg Ter-Vardanyan, Our Jubilee of the Voskan’s Bible (From the editor)...............13

Claude Cox, Oskan Yerevantsl and his Edition of the Bible (1666), revisited (in
English).............................................................16

Heriknaz Vorskanyan, Poetical Colophon of king Hethoum II in the publication of the Bible by Voskan..........................................34

Lusine Vardanyan, Comparative analysis of the Colophons of the Voskan Yerevantsi’s and Mekhitar Sebastatsis publications of the Bible.............43

Ani Yenokyan, The illustration system of Voskan Yerevantsi Bible........................51

Gevorg Ter-Vardanyan, The experiences of compiling of Armenian Bible Manuscripts Catalogues and a necessity of new Catalogue....60

Armen Malkhasyan, On the necessity of preparation of the critical text of the Bible and the textual principles.. .78

Bishop Vahan S. Hovhanessian, Apocryphal Repose of the Blessed John in the Armenian tradition (in English)..........86

Rev. Garegin Hambardzumyan, Theological reflections on the book of Sirach (in English).........94

Ema-Mania Shirinian, Origen’s conception on trichotomic sense of the Holy Bible and its reception in the armenian sources .104

Alvard Barkhudaryan, The old armenian (grabar) equivalent anthroponyms of the greek New testament........................112

S. Peter Cowe, Theological and rhetorical issues in the redaction of the Armenian Bible and the Teaching of st. Gregory (in English)...120

Anahit Avagyan, [Athanasius of Alexandria| and [Step‘anos Syunecl): Analysis of the translation of biblical quotations.....143

Archpriest Nerses (Vrej) Nersessian, Royal Asiatic Society Manuscript (in English) .........151

Norayr Pogosyan, Traces of latinology in some sections of Holy Bible in Voskan’s Translations ........167

Nazeni Garibyan, The ethymological and structural identification of the architectural terms in the armenian translation of the Bible ..174

Tatevik Vardanyan, The origination of simple words in the lexicon of the Gospel of Matthew................185

Gohar Haroutiounian, Exode 24,1-11: Le recit le plus de la conclusion de fancienne allience (in France).......193

Ani Shahinian, “Tracing models of martyrdom: The effect of the martyrdom narratives in the Bible on the composition of martyrologies in medieval and early modem Armenia” (in English) ... 200

The authors of this Book..... ................210


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HERIKNAZ VOSRSKANYAN
PHD, Deputy director of the Institute of Literature aÒ er M. Abegyan RA NAS, Senior scientifi c Researcher of the department of Armenian ancient and medieval literature
Е-mail: vorskanyan.heriknaz@mail.ru

LUSINE VARDANYAN,
Doctor of Philology, Institute of Literature aÒ er M. Abeghian of NAS of RA, Senior scientifi c Researcher of the department of Armenian ancient and medieval literature
Е-mail: lusin.vardanyan@mail.ru

ԱՆԻ ԵՆՈՔԵԱՆ,
ANI YENOKYAN,
АНИ ЕНОКЯН
Lecturer in Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts, Researcher at the Mashtots Matenadaran
Е-mail: aniyenokyan5@gmail.com

ԳԷՈՐԳ ՏԷՐ-ՎԱՐԴԱՆԵԱՆ,
GEVORG TER-VARDANYAN,
ГЕВОРГ ТЕР-ВАРДАНЯН
Doctor of Science (History), Chief Conservator of Mashtots Matenadaran and Head of department of Codicology and General Catalogue of Armenian Manuscripts, Lecturer аt the Gevorgian theological seminary (University) and аt the Yerevan State University. Teaches: Armenian Codicology and Paleography, History of Armenuian Printed Book, Writing and Book in the Armenian Culture, Textology of Armenian Bible, Textology of armenian Historiography
Е-mail: g.ter-vardanyan@matenadaran.am,
gtvardan@yahoo.com

ԱՐՄԷՆ ՄԱԼԽԱՍԵԱՆ,
ARMEN MALKHASYAN,
АРМЕН МАЛХАСЯН
Doctor of History, Head of archive department and senior researcher at the Mashtots Matenadaran. Scientifi c interests- chronology, textology, paleography, codicology
Е-mail: armmalkh@yahoo.com

ՎԱՀԱՆ ԵՊՍ. ՅՈՎՀԱՆՆԻՍԵԱՆ,
BISHOP VAHAN S. HOVHANESSIAN,
ЕПИСКОП ВААН ОГАННЕСЯН
His Grace Vahan S. Hovhanessian is the Primate Bishop of the Armenian Archdiocese of France and Pontifical Legate to Western Europe. He is a member of the Brotherhood of Holy Etchmiadzin Bishop Vahan holds a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Fordham University, New York, USA. He is the chairman of the unit “Bible in the Eastern and Oriental Christian Traditions” in the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). The Armenian version of the Bible and the apocryphal literature in the churches of the East, including the Armenian church, have been two of his main research interests based on his doctoral research of the apocryphal writing Third Corinthians, which was published as a book “Third Corinthians: Reclaiming Paul for Christian Orthodoxy” (Peter Lang, 2000).
Е-mail: leprimat@thenetgroup.net

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REV. GAREGIN HAMBARDZUMYAN,
АРХИМАНДРИТ ГАРЕГИН АМБАРЦУМЯН
He was born in 1986 in Yerevan. In 2002 he entered the Gevorgyan Theological Seminary of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and graduated with honors in 2008 with a degree of Bachelor’s and Master’s theology. In 2006, Father Garegin was ordained deacon, and three years later became a priest and became a member of the Holy Echmiadzin Congregation. 2009-2010 he was the head of the department of church and state relations of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. In 2010, he went to the UK to continue his academic studies at Sheffield University and lived at Harvard College for two years (Mirfield). In 2011, he was offered a Ph.D. in Sheffield, which he did, along with Hebrew studies at Oxford. He also lectured at a number of colleges at the university and the Institute of Oriental Studies. In 2010, Father Garegin was appointed spiritual pastor of the Birmingham, Oxford and Manchester communities. 2013-2014 he was the pastor of the church of St. Egishe in London. AÒ er the end of the PhD program, Father Garegin Hambardzumyan returned to Armenia and took up the post of deputy head of the Christian Education Department of the Holy See of Holy Etchmiadzin. In 2015, he beacame dean of the Gevorgyan Theological Seminary in St. Echmiadzin. In 2016, the publishing house De Gruyter published his book under the title “ The Book of Sirach in the Armenian Biblical Tradition: Yakob Nalean and His Commentary on Sirach (Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies“
Е-mail: gevorgianseminary@gmail.com

ԷՌՆԱ-ՄԱՆԵԱ ՇԻՐԻՆԵԱՆ,
ERNA-MANEA SHIRINIAN,
ЭРНА-МАНЕА ШИРИНЯН
Professor, Dr. Hist., Head of the Chair of Theology at the faculty of Theology at the Erevan State University. Armenian translations of Hellenizing School (Socrates Scholasticus’ Ecclesiastical History, Pseudo-Zeno. Anonymous Philosophical Treatise, Vita Silvestri, [Aristotle] De vitiis et virtutibus), Armenian Ecclesiastical Canons (The Armenian Version of the Greek Ecclesiastical Canons), textual criticism, Byzantine-Armenian Cultural and Historical connections (Patriarch Photius), Book of Causes as a witness of the Armenian reception of the Greek philosophical and patristic theological heritage in Late Antiquity;
E-mail: Erna.shirine@gmail.com

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ALVARD BARKHUDARYAN,
АЛВАРД БАРХУДАРЯН ։

Specialist on classical languages, lecturer of Gevorgyan Holly Academy, Edjmiadzin, Vazgenian Holly Seminary, Sevan and Yerevan State University. Graduated Leningrad (St. Petersburg) State University, Department of Classical Philology. Since 1975 lecturer of Old Greek and Latin in different Universities of Armenia. Scale of professional interests – Some aspects of Armenian version of Bible in comparison with Greek and Latin, compounds words and their Armenian equivalents, New Testament anthroponyms etc
E-mail: alvard.barkhudaryan@gmail.com


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S. PETER COWE,
С. ПИТЕР КОУ Ս.

S. Peter Cowe is Narekatsi Professor of Armenian Studies at the Univeristy of California, Los Angeles. Previously he has held positions in Armenology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Columbia University, New York. His research has been supported by NEH and Fulbright-Hays fellowships. A recipient of the Garbis Papazian award for Armenology, he was recently inducted into the Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan (Classe di Studi sul Vicino Oriente). The Armenian Bible has been one of his main research interests from his doctoral study of the book of Daniel (Scholars Press, 1992) to his latest participation in the three-volume reference work The Textual History of the Bible (Brill 2016-). He is currently preparing a critical text of the two early Armenian versions of Song of Songs.
E-mail: cowe@humnet.ucla.edu

The Strata of the Armenian Version of Cantica Examined for Contrasting Translation Technique and Witness to Their Greek Parent Texts (2017)

ԱՆԱՀԻՏ ԱՒԱԳԵԱՆ,
ANAHIT AVAGYAN,
АНАИТ АВАГЯН
Dr. theol., Matenadaran – Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, senior researcher / Gevorgian theological seminary, lecturer, Patristics and Classical Armenian translations of the writings of the Church Fathers.
E-mail: anahitavagyan@yahoo.com.

ՏԷՐ ՆԵՐՍԵՍ ԱՒԱԳ ՔՀՆՅ (ՎՐԷԺ) ՆԵՐՍԷՍԵԱՆ,
ARCHPRIEST NERSES (VREJ) NERSESSIAN,
ПРОТОИЕРЕЙ НЕРСЕС (ВРЕЖ) НЕРСЕСЯН
Revd. Dr. Nerses Nersessian was born in Tehran in 1948 and baptised under the name Vrej. He was admitted into Armenian College & Philanthropic Academy in India Calcutta in 1958 which he leÒ in 1965 to continue his studies at the Theological Seminary in Holy Etchmiadzin (Soviet Armenia). AÒ er completing the three year course in 1968 he was sent to London to continue his studies. He spent his first year in England as a seminarian in the Society of the Sacred Mission (Kelham) and then enrolled for further studies at King’s College, University of London. He graduated in May 1972 from the Theological Department with the degree of Bachelor of Divinity (Honours) followed by PH.D in March 1976 from the Department of Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies. His Doctoral Thesis under the supervision of Prof. D.M.Nicol (1923-2003) was The Tondrakain Movement. Religious movements in the Armenian church from the fourth to the tenth centuries published in London 1987 and reprinted in the Princeton Theological Monograph series in 1988.In 1975 he joined the British Library staff as Curator in Charge of the Christian Middle East section, a position which he held until his retirement in 2012. During his tenure in the British Library he has published several monographs, numerous articles and curated exhibitions of huge popular success, including the unique ‘Treasures from the Ark. 1700 years of Armenian Christian Art in 2001. On the 15th of September 2017 in the Armenian Nationial Library a FestschriÒ suitably called «Reflections on Armenia and the Christian Orient: Studies in Honour of Vrej Nersessian» was presented to him at a reception held in the National State Library of Armenia which (p. 11-24) lists all his publications and exhibitions curated by him both national and international. He was ordained priest in July 1983 in the Church of St Sarkis in Erevan by Archbishop Nerses Bozapalian of blessed memory; raised to the rank of Archpriest by His Holiness Vazgen Ist Catholicos of All Armenians (1955-1994) and in 2012 His Holiness Garegin Ist Catholicos of All Armenians awarded him the ‘Saint Nerses Shnorhali’ gold medal for services to the Christian Middle East section of the British Library and in particular the Armenian church. In 2005 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the Armenian Academy of Sciences for his contributions to Armenian Studies and Armenian Art. On 12th of December 2017 Heythrop College of the University of London awarded him Doctor of Divinity degree, honoris causa as a distinguished scholar and former curator of the Christian Middle east Section of the British Library.
E-mail: vrej.nersessian@ntlworld.com

ՆՈՐԱՅՐ ՊՕՂՈՍԵԱՆ,
NORAYR POGHOSYAN,
НОРАЙР ПОГОСЯН

Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Yerevan State University and Georgyan Theological Seminary, scientific sphere - classical Armenian, History of Armenian Language, Armenian dialects
E-mail: norayr.poghosyan@ysu.am

ՆԱԶԵՆԻ ՂԱՐԻԲԵԱՆ,
NAZENIE GARIBIAN,
НАЗЕНИ ГАРИБЯН
PhD in Art History (Paris, EPHE Sorbonne), Senior researcher at the Matenadaran, Associate Professor and Head of the Research Center, at the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts, Professor at the Gevorgian Theological Seminary. Academic interests: Armenian art and architecture, liturgy and theology in the early christian and medieval periods, the role of the sacred tradition of Jerusalem in the formation of the christian identity and culture in the Caucasus
E-mail: nazenie1@hotmail.com

ՏԱԹԵՒԻԿ ՎԱՐԴԱՆԵԱՆ,
TATEVIK VARDANYAN,
ТАТЕВИК ВАРДАНЯН
In 2012-2016 she had studied at Vanadzor State University in the section of ‘’ Armenian language and literature’’ of the phylological faculty with the degree of bachelor. From September 2016 to now I study at the VSU in the same section and faculty with the degree of magitser.

E-mail: tatev.vardanyan93@gmail.com

ԳՈՀԱՐ ՅԱՐJ ԹԻՒՆԵԱՆ,
GOHAR HAROUTIOUNIAN,
ГОАР АРУТЮНЯН
Docteur en Anthropologie religieuse et Histoire des religions, Professeur à l’Académie Saint George d’Ejmiadzine; Théologie liturgique et dogmatique, Anthropologie chrétienne et Spiritualité;
E-mail: gohar.haroutiounyan@gmail.com

ԱՆԻ ՇԱՀԻՆԵԱՆ,
ANI SHAHINIAN,
АНИ ШАГИНЯН
Ani Shahinian is a D.Phil. student in Oriental Theology at the University of Oxford. Ms. Shahinian holds an M.A. degree in Near Eastern and Languages and Cultures - Armenian Studies from UCLA, and graduate certificates in Philosophy and Theology from the University of Oxford. She received her B.A. in Philosophy, Ethics, and Professional Writing from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Prior to her graduate studies, Ms. Shahinian worked at the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), assisting with investigations and prosecutions of human trafficking cases and criminal civil rights abuses. While working at DOJ, she detected parallels between contemporary and historic human rights violations. Her career at DOJ became a corresponding journey of investigation and discovery of her identity as a Christian Armenian-American, directing her research interests in the field of Eastern Christian Studies. Her doctorate research addresses the question of Christian martyrdom in the context of Christian-Muslim relations in the Ottoman Empire, and more broadly Christian martyrdom narratives in the Armenian history and literature.
E-mail: Ani.shahinian@stx.ox.ac.uk
 
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Professor Terian is Professor Emeritus of Armenian Theology and Patristics at St. Nersess Armenian Seminary in New York, where he also served as Academic Dean for a decade, and previously taught Intertestamental and Early Christian Literature for twenty years at Andrews University. He is also an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and the Ambrosian Academy of Milan.

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"Ein unkanonische Text des Hohenliedes (Ct 8,15-20) in der armenischen Bibel"
ZAW 33(1913).
 
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