An active program in Armenian Studies has existed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1967 and in 1998-1999 we celebrated 30 Years of Armenian Studies at the Hebrew University. Thus, the University has recognized the significant role of the Armenians in Israel's complex society and in the Holy Land over more than three decades.

In recent years the department of Armenian Studies entered a period of unprecedented and dynamic growth. Ever closer relationships with the Republic of Armenia and its academic institutions have been created. A recent agreement between the Armenian Patriarchate and the University encourages newly ordained clergy to continue their education at the Hebrew University. Israeli students are exhibiting a new interest in Armenian Studies. The number of students increases each year. The Hebrew University has striven to respond to this growing demand with the help and support of friends of Armenian Studies from all over the world The program has been enriched and now a broad range of courses is offered, reflecting the wealth and variety of Armenian history, language and culture.

During the past year there have been a number of very significant developments marking the growing maturity of the Armenian Studies Program. These are reported below.

Armenian Studies forms part of the Department of Indian, Iranian and Armenian Studies in the University's Institute of Asian and African Studies. Georgian Studies are also taught in conjunction with the Armenian program. The programs of the Hebrew University and its Rothberg School for overseas students are fully accredited.

Degrees and Courses

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem offers degree courses in Armenian Studies at the Bachelor's, Master's and the Doctoral levels. Undergraduate and graduate students also come for one year periods of study as part of their degree programs at other institutions. Post-doctoral students often spend a research year in the Department.

The faculty members directly involved in Armenian and Georgian Studies instruction this year are:

1 Michael E. Stone, Ph.D. (Harvard), D.Litt. (Melbourne), Armenian Studies (Professor)

2 Roberta Ervine, Ph.D. (Columbia) — Armenian Studies (Lecturer)

3 Konstantine Lerner, Dr.Sc. (Tbilisi) — Georgian Studies (Associate Professor)

4 Nira Stone, Ph.D. (Hebrew University) — Armenian Art (Adjunct Lecturer)

Many other faculty members offer courses relevant to Armenian Studies in associated fields, such as History, Middle East Studies, Central Asian Studies, Turkish Studies, Iranian Studies, Classical Studies, Comparative Religion and Christian Studies.

Main Special Events and New Developments

The dynamic development reported on last year has accelerated and numerous new initiatives have characterized the Armenian Studies Program during the period covered by this report. The highlights are given here providing an overview of these new developments. Further details of these events and developments may be viewed on the Armenian Studies Program Web Site at http://unixware.mscc.huji.ac.il/~armenia

Visit to the Armenian Studies Program of H.B. Mesrob II, Patriarch of Istanbul and all Turkey

On January 17, 2000 an excited group of Armenian Studies students and faculty as well as members of the Armenian Students Organization welcomed our alumnus, His Beatitude Mesrob II to the Armenian Studies Program. His Beatitude wished to meet with them informally, recalling his own days as a student at the Hebrew University. As a young priest, Patriarch Mesrob studied in the Hebrew University's Armenian Studies Program under Professor Michael Stone. He was accompanied by Bishop Aram Ateshian. It was a a fascinating and moving meeting and a frank and lively discussion of many aspects of Armenian life and studies took place.

Visit to the University by H.E. Robert Kocharian, President of the Republic of Armenia

Mr. Robert Kocharian visited the Hebrew University at his own request on January 19, 2000. Accompanied by ministers, including Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, he was welcomed to a special gathering by the Rector, Professor Menahem Ben-Sason. Both the President and the Rector spoke of the role played by the Armenian Studies Program in building bridges between the two countries and peoples. Professor Michael Stone spoke on behalf of the Program.

His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians receives Armenian Studies Program

His Holiness, during his Christmas pilgrimage visit to the Holy Land, received the students and faculty of the Armenian Studies Program. His Holiness spoke in praise of the work of the Armenian Studies program, offering the help and support of the Catholicosate for the forwarding of Armenian Studies. The faculty and students were moved by His Holiness' words, and a very active conversation ensued, which was only cut off by the pressures of other appointments.

Armenian Assembly of America Delegation Visits

A delegation of six American Armenian leaders paid a visit to the Hebrew University's Armenian Studies Program on February 23, 2000. The delegation was composed of Mr. Ross Vartian, Executive Director of the Armenian Assembly of America; Mrs. Annie Totah, Armenian Assembly of America Board Member; Mr. Robert Kaloostian, Board Member and Counsel to the Board of Trustees of the Armenian Assembly of America; Mr. Hrair Hovnanian, a founding benefactor of the Armenian Assembly of America, Mr. Van Krikorian , Chairman of the Armenian Assembly of America's Board of Directors; and Ms. Carolyn Mugar, President of the Armenian Assembly of America.

The delegation was received by Hebrew University President Menahem Magidor and met with the staff and students of the Armenian Studies program. The discussion was lively and wide-ranging, with issues of the study of the Armenian Genocide taking a prominent place. Stress was also put on the vital importance of a profound knowledge of the spiritual, artistic, literary and intellectual creativity of the Armenian people.

Patriarch Torkom II of Jerusalem Lectures to Full House at HU

Archbishop Torkom Manoogian, Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem lectured to a full hall at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on February 29, 2000. The Patriarch lectured on "The Genius of Komitas Vartabed through his Songs." The lecture brought a striking appreciation of Komitas' musical genius to the audience mainly drawn from the Armenian Studies Program and the Department of Musicology.

Following the lecture, Patriarch Torkom was guest of honor at a dinner hosted by the Armenian Studies Program. Guests included President of the Hebrew University Professor Menahem Magidor, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities Professor Yair Zakovitch, H.E. Mr. Tsolag Momjian, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Armenia; Professors Amnon Shiloach and Roger Kamien of the Musicology Department; and Professor Michael Stone and Dr. Nira Stone of Armenian Studies. The Patriarch presented the Armenian Studies program with a number of books on Armenian music including some of his own arrangements of Komitas' music.

Symposium on Armenian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

On April 13-14 the Armenian Studies Program of the Hebrew University conducted a Symposium on "Armenian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land." The Symposium was the final event of the year-long celebration of 30 Years of Armenian Studies at the Hebrew University that started in April 1999. The Guest of Honor was H.B. Patriarch Mesrob II of Istanbul. The Symposium was organized jointly with the Ben-Tzvi Institute.

During the two days, an audience of between 40 and 60 persons heard lectures on a variety of aspects of the Armenian presence in the Holy Land.

At the opening session of the Conference Patriarch Mesrob read a Gontak, a Patriarchal Letter of Blessing for Professor Michael Stone and the Armenian Studies program. In his letter, Patriarch Mesrob congratulated Professor Stone and the Hebrew University for the high standard of and devotion given to the Armenian Studies program. He noted the ancient and sustained relationship between the Armenian people and the Holy Land and the appropriateness of the existence of a University-level Armenian Studies program alongside the great institutions of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

Publication of Jerusalem Conference Proceedings

As these lines are being written, the lectures given at the Thirty Years of Armenian Studies Conferences in 1999 and 2000 are being edited as a single volume. This book will appear in the newly-founded Hebrew University Armenian Studies publication series and will form the most detailed work in English on the Armenians in Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

Hebrew University Expedition to Armenia: Major Discoveries

In October an expedition of the Hebrew University Armenian Studies Program surveyed an ancient Jewish cemetery in Armenia. Director Professor Michael Stone was joined by archeologist David Amit and by Armenian Studies graduate student and professional photographer Yoav Loeff. In Yerevan they also met Sergio LaPorta, Harvard Armenian Studies doctoral student, Visiting Armenian Studies student in Jerusalem (1999-2000).

The cemetery is in the region of Vayots Dzor, south and west of Erevan. Over 40 tombstones were found there containing 16 inscriptions in Hebrew and Aramaic. The find is unprecedented and there is no information in known historical sources about a Jewish minority in Armenia in the Middle Ages. The inscriptions are dated to the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century. The Hebrew University group worked closely with the Primate of the Diocese of Siwniq, Bishop Abraham Mkrtchyan, who strongly supports the study of the unusual and very important find and provided much assistance to the scholars and archeologists.

This discovery provides major new data for both Armenian and Jewish history and the existence of this Jewish community, now indubitable, will change important aspects of our understanding of the period. At that time Vayots Dzor and, indeed, the whole Siwniq region, was an important center of Armenian intellectual life, and home of several of Armenia's famous "University Monasteries", such as Gladzor and Tat'ew.

The discovery has received considerable publicity because of its sensational character. The HU Armenian Studies team will return to Eghegis in May 2001 to continue research into the Jewish settlements in the Siwnik region.

An agreement was drawn up between the Armenian Studies Program of the Hebrew University, the Institute of Archeology of the National Armenian Academy of Sciences headed by Prof. Aram Kalantarian, and the Diocese of Siwniq of the Armenian Apostolic Church. This agreement provides for the continued study of this and similar sites, for joint publication of the results of the research, and for general scholarly cooperation.

The work was supported primarily by the Ben Tzvi Institute and support was also received from the Israel Antiquities Authority and The Foundation for Biblical Archeology. Bishop Abraham Mkrtchyan of Siwniq provided lodgings, logistical support and other assistance.

Hebrew University Agreement with Yerevan State University

During Professor Michael Stone's visit to Armenia in October an Agreement of Cooperation was signed between the Hebrew University and Yerevan State University. Professor Stone carried the agreement, signed by YSU Rector Radek Mardirossian back to Jerusalem. On January 11, 2001 the Agreement of Cooperation was signed in Jerusalem by HU Rector Menahem Ben Sason. Professor Stone will take it back to Armenia with him in May.

As part of this agreement, the Armenian Studies Program has arranged for the presentation to YSU on an important series of Armenological books. In return, gifts of Armenian books, particularly in the field of modern literature, have arrived in Jerusalem from Yerevan State University. Cooperation in the exchange of students and faculty, joint research and mutual assistance is foreseen. This is a milestone agreement for the two institutions which have already cooperated in the past.

New Fellowships

Two very significant fellowship gifts were received this year.

The Krikor Momjian Fellowships were donated by Jerusalem's Momjian Family, Tsolag and Allegra Momjian, and their children, Hagop, Albert and Monique in honour of their father and grandfather Krikor Momjian. These fellowships are for graduates of St. Tarkmanchatz High School to study at Hebrew University. All recipients will be required to take six year-hours of Armenian Studies as part of their university training.

The Jack Rudin Fellowships were donated by Mr. Jack Rudin of New York to benefit priests graduating from the St. Jaranakvorats Seminary of the Armenian Patriarchate pursuing Armenian Studies at the Hebrew University. They are designed to strengthen the intellectual training of these young servants of the Armenian Church, and to do so in a highly qualified and broad academic environment.

The two fellowships were inaugurated at a luncheon given on December 14 by Hebrew University President Menahem Magidor in honour of the donors. The luncheon was attended, among others, by His Beatitude Patriarch Torkom II of Jerusalem, the Principal and Vice-Principal of St. Tarkmanchatz High School and Professor Maureena Fritz representing Mr. Jack Rudin.

These are important building blocks in the development of our program, and will help achieve its goals of training students to the highest level of excellence in the study of the intellectual, historical and artistic heritage of the Armenian people.

MA Program in Armenian and Religious Studies

The establishment of this program has commenced its way through the process of academic approval. Until now, students wishing to do a Master's degree in Armenian Studies had to work either as tutorial students or in the Religious Studies Department, specializing in Armenian Studies. The establishment of this program is an important step for the future of the Armenian Studies Program. It is hoped that the process of approval will be finished this year.

Publication Series

As of November, 1999, the Armenian Studies Program has its own publication series. We have taken over the former University of Pennsylvania Armenian Texts and Studies Series, which was edited by Professor M.E. Stone. He will continue as Editor of the Hebrew University Armenian Studies which will be published by the distinguished Belgian house of Peeters Publishers in Leuven. The Editorial Board includes Professors Nina Garsoïan (emerita, Columbia University), Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania), Robert Thomson (Oxford University) and M.E. Stone.

The following volumes have been approved for publication and are in various stages of production:

Christina Maranci, Medieval Armenian Architecture Constructions of Race and Nature (currently in proof)

Michael E. Stone, Concordance to the Armenian Apocryphal Adam Books, 2 (currently in press)

Robert Thomson, The Shorter Socrates Scholasticus, Translation and Notes (provisional title; approved for publication).

Nira Stone, Roberta Ervine and Michael Stone (eds.),The Armenians in Jerusalem and the Holy Land (provisional title; now being edited).

New Books Published by Armenian Studies Faculty

PSEUDO-ZENO: ANONYMOUS PHILOSOPHICAL TREATIES

by M.E. Stone and M.E. Shirinian

Translated with the collaboration of J. Mansfeld and D.T. Runia

ISBN 90-04-11524-2

The ANONYMOUS PHILOSOPHICAL TREATISE, preserved only in Armenian, is here presented to the western world for the first time. It is a philosophical treatise of the Late Antique period, written in about the sixth century C.E. The author was a Christian, but he utilized pagan philosophical sources. This this is one of the latest writing of ancient philosophy, and as such is of very considerable interest and importance.

LITERATURE ON ADAM AND EVE: COLLECTED ESSAYS

edited by Gary Anderson, Michael Stone and Johannes Tromp

ISBN 90-04-11600-1

This book contains two substantial contributions by Michael Stone of Armenological interest:

The Legend of the Cheirograph of Adam, pp. 149-166

Selections from ON THE CREATION OF THE WORLD by Yovhannes T'lkuranc'i: Translation and Commentary, pp. 167-214.

THE ARMENIAN FRAGMENTS OF EPIPHANIUS' ON WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

edited, with translation and introduction by Michael E. Stone and Roberta R. Ervine

This work, being published by Peeters of Belgium in the distinguished series Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, gathers together the previously unrecognized fragments of this important ancient work. It provides texts in Classical Armenian, an English translation, and extensive introduction.

The full bibliographies of the Armenian Studies Faculty including their articles, are found on the Jerusalem Armenian Studies Web Site: http://unixware.mscc.huji.ac.il/~armenia

Publication of Student Research Papers

Three articles emerging from research done in the Seminar on Armenian Inscriptions given two years ago have appeared in print. They were written by Prof. M.E. Stone, with visiting scholar Dr. Th.M. van Lint (Leiden) and Julia Nazarjan, a student in the Armenian Studies Program.

Four articles prepared by the students participating in Prof. M.E. Stone's Seminar on Armenian Manuscripts in the academic year 1998-1999 will be published in the distinguished orientalist journal Le Muséon. They form a group of mature scholarly articles presenting previously unpublished texts from Armenian manuscripts and are currently in press.

Translations of three poems by the medieval Armenian poet Frik, based on work in Professor Stone's seminar in Medieval Armenian last year, have been prepared by him and Fr. Pakrad Bourjekian, probationary MA student in Armenian Studies. They have been accepted for publication in Ararat (published by the AGBU).

This unique integration of teaching with research and publication opens exciting vistas for our students, giving them hands-on experience and, at the same time, making a lasting contribution to the study of Armenian culture. It is particularly creative and quite unparalleled in any other Armenian Studies Program. These articles are accepted by the editors of the relevant journals in competition with articles by senior scholars from all over the world which demonstrates the high standard of our students and their academic achievements.

Visiting Research Student from Erevan

For the second year running, an Armenian Studies candidate was awarded the prestigious Lady Davis Fellowship. Mikayel Arakelian, doctoral candidate at the Institute of Art History of the National Armenian Academy of Sciences arrived in November to work in Jerusalem with the Armenian Studies Program faculty. Mikayel is studying an Armenian painter of the seventeenth century, Mesrop Khizantsi, who worked both in Armenia and in New Julfa in Iran. Last year's Lady Davis Fellow was Sergio LaPorta of Harvard University, who is currently finalizing his dissertation for submission.

Appointments and Honors

Prof. M.E. Stone resigned his position as President of the Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes. He had held this position since the AIEA's foundation in 1981. He was elected as Honourary Life President of the AIEA.

Armenian Studies student Deacon Haig Kazazian was ordained a celibate priest of the Armenian Church in August. He received the ecclesiastical name of Father Norayr and continues his studies in the Armenian Studies Program.

Armenian Students Organization

The Armenian Studies Program has given its support to the establishment of the Armenian Students Organization, chaired by Bedross Der Matossian. We also gave them space on our home-page until they get their own.

Courses taught at the Armenian Studies Program

Courses offered in the academic year 1999-2000 included:

Modern West Armenian for Beginners — Dr. R. Ervine

The Art of Armenia and the Christian Orient — Dr. N. Stone

The Armenians in the Ottoman Empire: the Early Period — Dr. R. Ervine

Armenian Hagiography (Lives of Saints) — Dr. R. Ervine

The History of Sebeos and Against the Heresies of Eznik — Prof. M.E. Stone

Texts in Medieval Armenian — Prof. M.E. Stone

University Monasteries of Armenia in the Middle Ages — Mr. S. LaPorta and Prof. M.E. Stone

Advanced Seminar in Armenian Studies — Prof. M.E. Stone

Elementary Georgian — Prof. K. Lerner

Lives of Georgian Saints from the 5-10th Century — Prof. K. Lerner

History of the Jewish Community of Georgia — Prof. K. Lerner

Courses being offered in the academic year 2000-2001 include:

Elementary Ancient Armenian — Prof. M.E. Stone

The Armenians in the Modern Period (18-20th Centuries) — Dr. R. Ervine

Select Problems in Armenian Art — Dr. N. Stone

Medieval Armenian Poetry — Prof. M.E. Stone

Advanced Modern Armenian — Dr. R. Ervine

Modern Armenian: Reading and Composition — Dr. R. Ervine

Armenian Institutions and Visitors in the Holy Land up to the Crusades — Prof. M.E. Stone

Pilgrimage in the Armenian Tradition — Dr. R. Ervine

Literature of Questions and Answers in the Armenian Tradition — Dr. R. Ervine

Advanced Georgian — Prof. K. Lerner

Introduction to the History of Georgia — Prof. K. Lerner

Jewish Folklore as a Source for Georgian Historiography — Professor K. Lerner

Courses to be Offered in 2001-2002 (incomplete and tentative list)

Armenian Inscriptions from Israel and Armenia — Prof. M.E. Stone

Adam and Eve in the Armenian Tradition — Prof. M.E. Stone

Christianity in Armenia: Origins and Development — Dr. S. LaPorta

Armenology: Recent Directions of Research — Dr. S. LaPorta

"The Book of Questions" of Gregory of T'atew — Dr. S. LaPorta

Eastern Monasticism — Dr. S. LaPorta

History of Armenian from the Beginnings to the Fifteenth Century — Dr. S. LaPorta

Armenian Art — Dr. N. Stone

Field Trip

Field trip: In June, under the guidance of Deacon Haig Kazazian a group from the Armenian Studies Program visited the famous "Bird Mosaic" in the Musrara Quarter of Jerusalem. Under the guidance of Lecturer in Armenian Art, Dr. Nira Stone, they studied this most beautiful mosaic which bears an Armenian Inscription.

Graduate Students and Research Visitors

At present the following persons are writing doctoral theses:

Noune Poghossian, On the Liturgical Music of the Armenian Church of Jerusalem

Marlen Eordigian, On the Relationship between the State of Israel and the Armenian Patriarchate 1948-1967.

Julia Nazarjian continues work towards her Master's degree, and Yoav Loeff and Fr. Pakrad Bourjekian are probationary Master's students in Armenian Studies. In addition, Fr. Emmanuel Aljanian is working for an MA in Religious Studies through the Rothberg School with a concentration in Armenian Studies.

In Spring 1999 Dr. Bert Vaux of the Department of Linguistics, Harvard University, an expert on Armenian dialects, did an initial probe into the dialects of the Armenians of the Holy Land. We hope that this will lead to a recording of these dialects of Armenian, one of which is threatened with extinction. Agreement has been reached in principle for this to be a joint project of the Israel Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and the carrying out of the project is foreseen for summer of 2001.

Library

Further development of library resources has gone on, though much remains to be done. Important books have been received under the exchange agreement with the Library of Congress. A number of gifts of books were received from individuals and scholars including Yerevan State University, H.B. Patriarch Torkom II of Jerusalem, H.B. Patriarch Mesrob II of Istanbul, Professor Dennis Papazian and the Armenian Studies Center at the University of Michigan (Dearborn); Very Rev. Fr. Krikor Maksoudian; and some others. A complete run of the Haygazian Armenological Review was presented to the Library. The Armenian Studies Program is providing a student to assist in the cataloguing of works in Armenian, in order to get them onto the shelves more efficiently. The process of acquistion of books continues, but it is limited by budgetary considerations. The matter of library is particularly pressing since the Gulbenkian Library of the Armenian Patriarchate is closed for renovation and will remain closed for some time and every book that is added to the collection benefits our students.

Student Activities, Outreach and Community-Orientated Program

Public Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department in English, Armenian and Hebrew.

In 2000 held the following lectures:

January 18, 2000: H.E. Robert Kocharian, President of the Republic of Armenia

February 29, 2000: H.B. Torkom Manoogian, Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem on "Komitas Vartabed's Genius through His Songs".

In April and early May the ASO organized activities relating to the Genocide.

Armenian Studies Web Page and Press Releases

The Internet Site, established by the Department in order to present its own work, and also the riches of Armenian culture, has been completely restructured. The Webmistress is Dr. A. Pinnick. It is available at: http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~armenia. The Internet Site is a rich source of historical and cultural information. Special pages are devoted to the ancient Armenian mosaics discovered in Jerusalem, Armenian Art (under development) and other similar topics. Full information about the Armenian Program and its activities is posted there and all press releases and other information.

We continue to make the work of the Armenian Studies Program known through a series of Press Releases in English and Armenian which have had good coverage in the Armenian

Officially unconnected with the Department is the organization of an Armenian Students Club, currently underway.

Research

The research carried out in the Department rich and varied.

The great excitement this year has been the excavation of the Jewish Cemetery in Eghegis Armenia, which is presented above. This is turning in to a major project. The work has been particularly supported by the Ben Tzvi Institute for the Study of Oriental Jewish Communities and also by the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Foundation for Biblical Archeology and, of course, the Hebrew Univesity of Jerusalem.

The major funded project is headed by Professor M.E. Stone and funded by the Israel Science Foundation. It is on The Stories of Adam and Eve in Armenian Culture. It is an attempt to trace the way these stories functioned in Armenian culture throughout the ages.

Other main focuses of research of members of the Department are the following:

Armenians in the Holy Land and the Georgians in the Holy Land

M.E. Stone, Armenian Inscriptions in the Holy Land. Professor Stone continues his publications on this field. A new article has been written in this field.

R.R. Ervine and M.E. Stone, The Inscriptions and Dedications of the Church of the Holy Archangels in Jerusalem. One article has been written and a second one is underway.

R. Ervine, Armenian Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the 18th Century. Dr. Ervine has a number of other researches underway relating to Armenians in Jerusalem and the Holy Land and to the Armenian Patriarchate, including the publication of the Diary of Patriarch Minas Amtec'i.

K. Lerner: Problems of Semitic Tradition in Ancient Georgian Culture. Dr. Lerner's monographic study on the early Georgian Judaeo-Christian community is currently in press. He continues with further project on this theme.

Biblical Traditions in Armenian Culture and Related Topics

M.E. Stone, Further Armenian Apocryphal Texts from Manuscripts; Concordances of the Armenian Apocryphal Adam Literature.

N. Stone, The Figure of Satan in Armenian Art

N. Stone, Apocryphal Stories reflected in Armenian Manuscript Illuminations

N. Stone, The Iconography of Paradise in Byzantine and Armenian Art

Armenian Literature and Thought:

M.E. Stone and N. Stone, The Unpublished Armenian Manuscripts of the Chester Beatty Library.

M.E. Stone and R. Ervine, The Armenian Fragments of Epiphanius de mensuris et ponderibus.

M.E. Stone and M.E. Shirinian, Pseudo-Zeno, An Untitled Treatise, edition, translation, commentary and CD Rom.

R. Ervine, Vanakan Vardapet's Questions relating to the Pentateuch

K. Lerner, The Social Status of the Jewish Community in Georgia

K. Lerner, An Hypothesis of the Typology of Language Movements

Publications and Works in Press

Full bibliographies of members of the Armenian Studies Program, including journal articles not listed here, are to be found on the Web Site: http://unixware.mscc.huji.ac.il/~armenia

Books

K. Lerner, The Conversion of Kartli; Translation, Comments, Introductions and Indexes, is in press in the Hebrew version at Magnes Press. The English version will go do press shortly.

M.E. Stone and R. Ervine, The Armenian Fragments of Epiphanius' "de mensuris et ponderibus" Peeters: Leuven, 2001.

N. Stone, The Kaffa Lives of the Desert Fathers: A Study in Armenian Manuscript Illumination, CSCO, 566: Leuven: Peeters, 1997.

M.E. Stone (Editor-in-Chief) with D. Kouymjian and H. Lehmann, Album of Armenian Paleography, Aarhus University Press (in Press)

M.E. Stone and M.E. Shirinian, Pseudo-Zeno: Untitled Treatise, Introduction, Critical Edition, Translation, Commentary and Concordances, Brill: Leiden, 2000.

M.E. Stone and G.A. Anderson, Studies in the Literature of Adam and Eve Brill, Leiden, 2000.

M.E. Stone, Adam's Contract with Satan, Indiana University Press: Bloomington, (proofs are awaited).

Articles

R.R. Ervine, "Women Outside the World: the Armenian Nuns of Jerusalem," Second International Conference on Christian Heritage in the Holy Land, Jerusalem, July 2-6, 1996. (forthcoming in proceedings).

R.R. Ervine, "The Syrian Orthodox Community of Jerusalem," Eretz, July 1998 (forthcoming)

K. Lerner, "Georgia, Christian History", The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity, ed. by Ken Parry, (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999) 210-214.

K. Lerner, "The Social Status of the Jewish Community in Ancient Georgia", Central Asia and Caucasus 2, (Lulea, Sweden 1999), 206-210 (in Russian).

K. Lerner, "Towards the Problem of the Transition from Aspectual to Tense-Aspectual System of the Georgian Verb", Studies in Caucasian Linguistics, (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands 1999), 45-50.

K. Lerner, "The Meaning of the some Social Term in the Ancient Georgian - mciri, msxemi, ucxo,geri, Georgian-Jewish Relations 1. Bulletin of the Kutaisi University 6, Kutaisi (1999), 43-52 ( in Georgian ).

K. Lerner, Review of Thomson Robert W., trans., "Rewritting Caucasian History: The Mediaeval Armenian Adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles," Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies 9, (1999), 215-217.

K. Lerner, "Category of "Comparison" from the Point of View of an Hypothesis of Language Motion," Voprosy Iazykoznania, (1998) in press.

K. Lerner with Victor Kuperman, "Towards the Formation of the Unified Paradigm of Degrees of Comparison: the Synthetic Escalating Grades," Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, (1998) in press.

K. Lerner, "The Transition from Aspectual to Tense-Aspectual System of the Georgian Verb," Societas Caucasiologia Europea, 8th Caucasian Colloquium, Leiden 1996, in press.

K. Lerner, "The Conversion of Kartli (Georgia)," Anatolian and Caucasian Studies, Cleveland State University in press

M.E. Stone, “The Legend of the Cheirograph of Adam.” Literature on Adam and Eve: Collected Essays. Eds. Gary Anderson, Michael Stone and Johannes Tromp. SVTP, 15. Leiden: Brill, 2000, 149-166.

M.E. Stone, “Selections from On the Creation of the World by Yovhanns T‘lk‘uranc‘i: Translation and Commentary.” Literature on Adam and Eve: Collected Essays. Eds. Gary Anderson, Michael Stone and Johannes Tromp. SVTP, 15. Leiden: Brill, 2000, 167-214.

M.E. Stone, “Some Further Armenian Angelological Texts,” Gagik Sarkissian Festschrift (in press).

M.E. Stone, “The Mount of the Transfiguration and Armenian Pilgrimage to the Galilee.” Shoghakat‘ (in press).

M.E. Stone, “The Armenian Inscriptions,” Report on Excavations of the Third Wall, ed. D. Amit, and S. Wolf. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority.

M.E. Stone, “The Bones of Adam and Eve,” Nickelsberg FS Trinity Press International, 2000.

M.E. Stone, “Another Manuscript of the Armenian Version of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs,” Revue des Etudes Arméniennes in press.

M.E. Stone, “The Reception of Jewish and Biblical Traditions among the Armenians,” From Ararat to Jerusalem: Montpellier Conference Volume

M.E. Stone, “A Reassessment of the Bird and Eustathius Mosaics,” Armenians in Jerusalem and the Holy Land ed. R.R. Ervine, M.E. Stone and N. Stone (Hebrew University Armenian Series) in press.

Nira Stone, "From Sin to Sainthood: The Story of a Pilgrim to Jerusalem," Armenians in Jerusalem and the Holy Land ed. R.R. Ervine, M.E. Stone and N. Stone (Hebrew University Armenian Series) in press.

Nira Stone, "The Transfiguration in Armenian Art," Shoghagat (Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul) in press.

Members of the Department lectured at various international scholarly gatherings, in Israel, in Europe and in Armenia.

More Information

Information on the Armenian program is available on the Web: http://unixware.mscc.huji.ac.il/~armenia. Additional information can be obtained from Professor Michael E. Stone, Department of Indian, Iranian and Armenian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (stone@vms.huji.ac.il -- Fax: +972-2-588 3584).

Admission information is available from The Admissions Office, Rothberg School for Overseas Students, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel or from The American Friends of the Hebrew University, 11 East 69th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA.

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