The Armenian apocalyptic tradition : a comparative perspective : essays presented in the honor of Professor Robert W. Thomson on the occasion of his eightieth birthday / edited by Kevork B. Bardakjian and Sergio La Porta.

In English with some passages in Armenian; one contribution in French.

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 Lusaworičʻ 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.

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.

"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.

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The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition: A Comparative Perspective comprises an unprecedented collection of essays on apocalyptic literature in the Armenian tradition.

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