Position:

Retired (former Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies)

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute / Pembroke College

Email:

robert.thomson@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• Eastern Christian Studies: Armenian Georgian, Syriac, with emphasis on classical Armenian literature

Current Projects:

• Editing (with translations and commentaries) various Armenian texts of historical or theological importance

Courses Taught:

• Classical Armenian at all levels
• Elementary and intermediate classical Georgian

Recent Publications:

• Studies in Armenian literature and Christianity, Variorum 1994
• A Bibliography of classical Armenian literature to 1500 AD, Turnhout 1995
• Rewriting Caucasian history: the medieval Armenian adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles, OUP 1996
• (ed.) From Byzantium to Iran: Armenian studies in honour of Nina G. Garsoian 1997
• with J. Howard-Johnston, The Armenian history attributed to Sebeos 1999
• The Lawcode of Mxit'ar Gosh (Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature, 6), Amsterdam 2000
• A Homily on the Passion of Christ attributed to Elishe (Eastern Christian Texts in Translation, 5), Leuven 2000
• The Armenian Adaptation of the Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus (Hebrew University Armenian Studies, 5), Leuven 2001
• Hamam: Commentary on the Book of Proverbs (Hebrew University Armenian Studies, 5), Leuven 2005
• Moses Khorenats'i, History of the Armenians. Revised edition, Caravan Books, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2006 [original publication: Harvard University Press, 1978].
• Nerses of Lambron: Commentary on the Revelation of Saint John [Hebrew University Armenian Series, 9], Peeters: Leuven, 2007.

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