The Armenian apocalyptic tradition [electronic resource] : 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.
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TextLanguage: English, French, Armenian Series: Studia in Veteris Testamenti pseudepigrapha: v. 25.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2014Description: 1 online resource (xx, 797 p.) : illISBN: 9789004270268 (electronic book)Subject(s): Apocalypse in literature -- Congresses | Apocalyptic literature -- Congresses | Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses | Apocalypse in literature | Apocalyptic literature | Armenian literature | Civilization | Armenia -- Civilization -- Congresses | Asia -- ArmeniaGenre/Form: Conference proceedings. | Criticism, interpretation, etc. | History.Additional physical formats: No title; Online version:: Armenian apocalyptic tradition.DDC classification: 220.046 LOC classification: BS1700 | .S78 vol.25DS176 | .A76 2014Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | URL | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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 Lusaworic̦ʻ 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.
"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.
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.
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Twenty-nine contributions in English and 1 in French. Includes some text in Armenian.