Robert W. Thomson

Jean-Pierre Mahé

A collection of essays reflecting the scholarship of a retired Columbia University professor of early and medieval Armenia, in sections on Iran and Georgia, Armenian and Byzantine history, linguistics and literature, and art history and epigraphy. Subjects include the princely nobility of Georgia, uses of psalms in some early Armenian authors, and the Apostles in Armenian art. Fifteen of 28 papers are in French. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Armenian Studies in Honour of Nina G. Garsoïan

From Byzantium to Iran

This textbook contains 17 lessons covering the principal grammatical points of classical Armenian, along with nine selected readings & an extensive vocabulary list. The texts presented as reading exercises include extracts from the Gospels & from the classical Armenian writers. "The author's command of his subject, & his skill in teaching, are made abundantly clear in every chapter. There is little doubt that this textbook will be the welcome standard primer for some time to come."-John A. C. Greppin in Revue des etudes Armeniennes.

An Introduction to Classical Armenian

This book presents the two texts, Georgian and Armenian, in English translation for the first time. The Introduction and Commentary draw attention to the ways in which the unknown Armenian translator changed his original material in a pro-Armenian fashion. His rendering became the standard source for early Georgian history used by later Armenian historians.

The Medieval Armenian Adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles : the Original Georgian Texts and the Armenian Adaptation

Rewriting Caucasian History

These indices give the complete vocabulary of the Armenian translation of the works attributed to Pseudo-Dionysius. They are based on the critical edition of the Armenian text by R.W. Thomson, Louvain 1987 [CSCO 488]. In the Greek-Armenian Index each different rendering of a Greek word is listed with a reference to its first occurrence. The Armenian-Greek Index lists each different Greek word translated by the same Armenian word. Since the translation of Pseudo-Dionysius, made in Constantinople by Step'annos of Siwnik', is precisely dated to between 715 and 718, these indices are of great importance for the study of Armenian translation technique. This book will therefore be of value to several groups: 1. scholars interested in the study of Pseudo-Dionysius, both in the original Greek and in the oriental versions; 2. those involved in the study of classical Armenian literature, and especially in texts translated from Greek; 3. linguistics interested in Indo-European languages in general, and the study of translation technique in particular.

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