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This is the first book on the history of the Jews in ancient and medieval Armenia. Drawing on literary, epigraphical and archaeological sources, the book assembles and analyses the information available on this community from earliest times to the fourteenth century. It takes account of many types of evidence bearing on its history including documents from the Cairo Geniza, newly uncovered inscriptions, medieval itineraria, and diplomatica. Th...

In this collection of Armenian apocryphal texts, Michael E. Stone focuses on texts related to heaven and hell, angels and demons, and biblical figures from the Hebrew Bible and apocrypha. The texts, introductions, translations, annotations, and critical apparatus included in this volume make this collection a key resource for students and scholars of apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature.

In this collection of Armenian apocryphal texts, Michael E. Stone focuses on texts related to heaven and hell, angels and demons, and biblical figures from the Hebrew Bible and apocrypha. The texts, introductions, translations, annotations, and critical apparatus included in this volume make this collection a key resource for students and scholars of apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature.

This is the first English translation of the major Armenian epic on Adam and Eve composed by Arak'el of Siwnik' in the early fifteenth century. Arak'el writes extremely powerful narrative poetry, as in his description of the brilliance of paradise, of Satan's mustering his hosts against Adam and Eve, and Eve's inner struggle between obedience to God and Satan's seduction. In parts the epic is in dialogue form between Adam, Eve, and God. It als...

The Armenian tradition is particularly richly endowed with tales of biblical heroes such as such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Solomon, Daniel and Susanna, and more. Michael E. Stone translates these stories from medieval manuscripts into English and shows how some ancient traditions dating to the Second Temple period were transmitted and transformed by Armenian authors. The texts reflect the richness of Armenian creativity stimulated by piety and l...

The Armenian tradition is particularly richly endowed with tales of biblical heroes such as such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Solomon, Daniel and Susanna, and more. Michael E. Stone translates these stories from medieval manuscripts into English and shows how some ancient traditions dating to the Second Temple period were transmitted and transformed by Armenian authors. The texts reflect the richness of Armenian creativity stimulated by piety and l...

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Greatly enriches our understanding of the religious dynamic of this period~Analyzes the Essenes and other contemporary groups as a secret society

In the later 1970s and up to 1982, Michael E. Stone conducted a number of expeditions to the Sinai peninsula, searching for ancient inscriptions and Armenian pilgrimage routes. The book describes the process of his search, crowned by the discovery of the most ancient Armenian inscriptions known. However, the focus of his interest and travel was much broader, and the book is replete with information about the Sinai, its denizens, its past and p...

In the later 1970s and up to 1982, Michael E. Stone conducted a number of expeditions to the Sinai peninsula, searching for ancient inscriptions and Armenian pilgrimage routes. The book describes the process of his search, crowned by the discovery of the most ancient Armenian inscriptions known. However, the focus of his interest and travel was much broader, and the book is replete with information about the Sinai, its denizens, its past and p...

This volume introduces a cycle of stories about Abraham as preserved in fifteen unpublished, late medieval manuscripts in Armenian, published here in English for the first time with commentaries, annotations, and critical apparatus. The texts present embroidered Abraham stories dealing with his youth, his life in Egypt, the binding of Isaac, the story of Melchizedek, and other tales. Embedding Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and other ancient trad...

Fourth Ezra is a magnificent commentary, the definitive and standard work for generations to come.

This volume introduces a cycle of stories about Abraham as preserved in fifteen unpublished, late medieval manuscripts in Armenian, published here in English for the first time with commentaries, annotations, and critical apparatus. The texts present embroidered Abraham stories dealing with his youth, his life in Egypt, the binding of Isaac, the story of Melchizedek, and other tales. Embedding Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and other ancient trad...

Ancient Judaism questions a broad range of basic assumptions made by students of Second Temple Judaism and calls for a radical rethinking of approaches to Jewish history studies. Michael Stone challenges theologically conditioned histories of ancient Judaism devised by later orthodoxies, whether Jewish or Christian, and he stresses the importance of understanding religious experience as a major factor in the composition of ancient religious do...

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This book presents twelve hundred years of Armenian versions of the Genesis 13 stories. Prose, poetry, homilies, commentaries, calendary and mathematical texts contribute to an unparalleled collection of all significant Armenian Adam and Eve narratives from the fifth to the seventeenth century.

This book presents twelve hundred years of Armenian versions of the Genesis 13 stories. Prose, poetry, homilies, commentaries, calendary and mathematical texts contribute to an unparalleled collection of all significant Armenian Adam and Eve narratives from the fifth to the seventeenth century.

This book includes new texts from Armenian manuscripts that are relevant to the development and growth of biblical themes and subjects. Most of these texts have not been published previously. Michael Stone has collected a fascinating corpus of texts about biblical heroes, such as Joseph and Jonah, Nathan the Prophet, and Asaph the Psalmist. In addition, he has included documents illustrating particular points of the biblical story. This work r...