SELECT PUBLICATIONS
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Monographs
- Christ in Armenian Tradition: Doctrine, Apocrypha, Art (Sixth–Tenth Centuries) [The Journal of Eastern Christian Studies; monographic issue], (Leuven: Peeters, 2016).
- Recensions: Cristianesimo nella storia 2018/2, 553-557.
- Arméniens et Byzantins à l’époque de Photius : Deux débats théologiques après le Triomphe de l’orthodoxie (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 609; Subsidia 117), (Leuven: Peeters, 2004).
- Recensions: St Vladimir Theological Review 49 (2005), 477-81; Journal of Ecclesiastical History 57 (2006), 566-67; Revue des ?tudes Arméniennes 30 (2005?07), 484-86; Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 152 (2008), 236-38; E?miacin 2009/6, 116-26.
Articles in peer-reviewed periodicals and series
- ‘Kingship and Hospitality in the Iconography of the Palatine Church at A?t?amar’, in: Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa 52/3 (2016) [ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΑ e ΙΕΡΩΣΥΝΗ. Studi in memoria di Gilbert Dagron], pp. 479-516; 15 plates.
- ‘The Cave of the Nativity Revisited: Memory of the Prim?val Beings in the Armenian Lord’s Infancy and Cognate Sources’ (edited texts and critical study), in: Travaux et Mémoires; vol. 18 (2014) [Mélanges Jean-Pierre MAH?; eds. A. MARDIROSSIAN, A. OUZOUNIAN and C. ZUCKERMAN], pp. 285?334.
- ‘Rückkehr zur Geburtsgrotte. Eine Untersuchung des armenischen Berichts über die Kindheit des Herrn’, in: Theologie der Gegenwart 56/1 (2013), pp. 30?43.
- ‘Studies of Armenian Christian Tradition in the Twentieth Century’, in:
Annual of Medieval Studies at Central European University
18 (2012), pp. 137?152. - ‘?Manto terrestre dell’immagine solare?: Note sul linguaggio cristologico di Gregorio di Narek’, in: Orientalia Christiana Analecta 275 (2006) [Saint Grégoire de Narek: théologien et mystique, eds. J.-P. MAHE and B. L. ZEKIYAN], pp. 113–138.
- ‘Sayat-Nova (c.1712–1795): hortus conclusus di un menestrello del Caucaso’, in: Revue des ?tudes Arméniennes 29 (2003-2004), pp. 89–98.
- ‘La découverte de la kénose de Dieu par la ? Pensée faible ? : La religion dans l’?uvre de G. Vattimo’, in: Istina 49/4 (2004), pp. 361–377.
- ‘???????? ???????????? ????????? ? ??????? ??????????? ???????’ [Syriac Christian Culture and Formation of the non-Chalcedonian Churches], in: Lraber hasarakakan gitut‘yunneri [The Journal of Social Studies] (Yerevan), 2004/2, pp. 84–92.
- ‘La ? P?que d’?gypte ? et la ? P?que de Jérusalem ? : L’herméneutique de l’Exode dans les traditions chrétienne et rabbinique selon I. Y. Yuval’, in: Istina 48/4 (2003), pp. 359–373.
- In collaboration with A. Vernitski, ‘The Ambiguity of Religious References in A. Platonov’s Впрок (For Future Use)’, in: Australian Slavonic and East European Studies (Formely Melbourne Slavonic Studies) 17/1-2 (2003), pp. 101–121.
- ‘Ic?ne, page blanche et le Carré noir : à propos des recherches sur l’iconographie de M.-J. Mondzain’ (discussion), in: Istina 45/ 3 (2000), pp. 269–274.
Contributions to peer-reviewed collective volumes
- ‘The Messiah Hidden in the Depths of the Sea: Reminiscences of 4 Ezra in the Armenian Script of the Lord’s Infancy’, in: Figures of Ezra (Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha; 13), eds. J. N. BREMMER, V. HIRSCHBERGER and T. NICKLAS, (Leuven: Peeters, 2018), pp. 79–96.
- ‘Возвращение в рождественскую пещеру: Память первозданного человечества в армянском Писании о детстве Господнем и в родственных источниках’, in: Miscellanea Orientalia Christiana / Восточнохристианское разнообразие, eds. N. N. SELEZNEV and Yu. N. AR?ANOV, (Moscow, Russian State University for the Humanities, Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies / Bochum, Ruhr Universit?t, Seminar für Orientalistik und Islamwissenschaft, 2014), pp. 149?184.
- ‘Travels and Studies of Stephen of Siwnik? (c.685–735): Redefining Armenian Orthodoxy Under Islamic Rule’, in: Heresy and the Making of European Culture. Medieval and Modern Perspectives, eds. A. P. ROACH and J. R. SIMPSON (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 355?381.
- ‘La risposta di Giacomo di Nisibi ad Aristace’ (annotated translation), in: Afraate, Le esposizioni (Testi del Vicino Oriente antico), vol. I, ed. G. LENZI (Brescia: Paideia, 2012), pp. 65–66.
- ‘La transmission de l’apocryphe de l’Enfance de Jésus en Arménie’, in: Jesus in apokryphen Evangelienüberlieferungen. Beitr?ge zu au?erkanonischen Jesusüberlieferungen aus verschiedenen Sprach- und Kulturtraditionen (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament; 254), eds. J. FREY and J. SCHR?TER (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010), pp. 557–582.
- ‘Chiese non-calcedonesi’, in: Dizionario del sapere storico-religioso del Novecento, ed. A. MELLONI (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2010), pp. 515–534.
- ‘L’Ermete armeno: un catechismo. Ermete il Tre-volte-grande ad Asclepio ?Definizioni?’ (annotated translation, introduction, lexicon), in: La rivelazione segreta di Ermete Trismegisto (Foundation ‘Lorenzo Valla’; Scrittori Greci e Latini), ed. P. SCARPI, vol. I, (Milan: A. Mondadori, 2009), pp. 3–23, 393–406.
- ‘Silence, Intellect and Discourse in the Quest for the True Teaching: Reflections on Hermes Trismegistos’s ?Definitions?’, in: Encounter between Eastern Orthodoxy and Radical Orthodoxy: Transfiguring the World through the Word, eds. A. PABST and CH. SCHNEIDER, (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 176–184.
- ‘Exploration of the Kazakh Steppes and Semire?’e in Russia from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century’, in: Kazakhstan: Religions and Society in the History of Central Eurasia, eds. G. L. BONORA, N. PIANCIOLA and P. SARTORI, (Turin: U. Allemandi, 2009), pp. 179–198.
- ‘Beyond Empire I: Eastern Christianities from the Persian to the Turkish Conquest, 604-1071’, in: Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 3 (Early Medieval Christianities), eds. J. M. H. SMITH and T. F. X. NOBLE, (Cambridge: University Press, 2008), pp. 65–85, 658?665.
- ‘Nazionalismo e religione nella dinamica del Genocidio degli armeni (1915-1916)’, in: Il crimine dei crimini. Stermini di massa nel Novecento, eds. F. BERTI and F. CORTESE, (Milan: Franco Angeli Edizioni, 2008), pp. 64–84.
- ‘The Apostolic Foundation Stone: the Conception of Orthodoxy in the Controversy between Photius of Constantinople and Isaac Surnamed M?ut (882)’, in: Byzantine Orthodoxies, eds. A. LOUTH and A. CASIDAY, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 179–198.
- Contributions to the Catalogue of Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the Mediterranean Area From the 11th to the 15th Century, eds. E. GUIDOBONI and A. COMASTRI, (Rome: Istituto nazionale di geofisica e vulcanologia, 2005), passim.
- ‘The Royal Road and the Via Media at the Armeno-Syro-Byzantine Council of Shirakawan, 862/3’, in: The Armenians in Jerusalem and the Holy Land (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 4), eds. M. STONE and R. ERVINE, (Leuven: Peeters, 2002), pp. 61–79.
Accepted and forthcoming
- ‘Eve, Melchizedek and the Magi in the Cave of the Nativity According the Armenian Corpus of Homilies Attributed to Epiphanius of Salamis’ (edited texts and critical study), in: The Protevangelium of James (Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha; 16), eds. J. N. BREMMER et al. (Leuven: Peeters, 2019), 60 pages.
- ‘Adam in the Church at A?t?amar (915–921) and in a Pseudepigraphal Homily on Genesis: the Creator’s Companion, a King and a Herald of the Things to Come’, in: Von der Historienbibel zur Weltchronik, ed. Ch. B?TTRICH, (Leipzig: EVA, 2019), 20 pages.
- ‘Concerning Four Kings From the Land of “Deep Ravines, Dense Forests and Dark Thickets”’, in: Images of the Good Christian Ruler in the Mediterranean and the Near East (4th–10th Centuries) (Millennium Studien), ed. H. LEPPIN, (Berlin: De Gruyter: 2019), 50 pages.
Reviews
- ‘Robert W. Thomson, Nerses of Lambron. Commentary on the Revelation of Saint John’ (comprehensive review), in: Le Muséon 122/1-2 (2009), pp. 231–236.
- ‘A. M. Bruni, Теологос: древнеславянские кодексы Слов Григория Назианзина и их византийские прототипы (I codici slavi antichi delle Orazioni di Gregorio di Nazianzo e i loro prototipi bizantini)’ (review), in: Le Muséon 118/3-4 (2005), pp. 401–402.
- ‘Le génocide des Arméniens dans l’Empire ottoman’ (comprehensive review of: L’actualité du Génocide des Arméniens [actes du colloque organisé à l’Université Paris-Sorbonne en avril 1998], Créteil : ?dipol 1999), in: Istina 46/1 (2001), pp. 32-48.
Entries in encyclop?dia
- ‘Armenian Literature’, ‘Armenian Monasteries’, ‘Armenian Patristics’, in: Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Christian East, ed. E. G. FARRUGIA, (Rome: Pontifical Oriental Institute, 20152), pp. 200?208.
- ‘Christianity in Armenia’, ‘Genocide of Armenians’, ‘Gregory the Illuminator’, ‘Mesrop Mashtots’, ‘Moses of Khoren’, ‘Nersês Shnorhali’, in: The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, ed. D. PATTE, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 73–74, 484, 777, 842, 861.
- ‘????? ???????? ???????’ [Syrian Orthodox Church], in: K‘ristonya Hayastan. Hanragitaran [Christian Armenia: Encyclop?dic Dictionary], eds. K. KHUDAVERDYAN, M. HASRATYAN and Sh. ADJEMIAN, (Yerevan: Armenian Encyclop?dia Press, 2002), pp. 85–88.
- Armenian martyrologies from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century: ‘Amenawag di Derjan’, ‘Barunak di Amid’, ‘Gabriele di Galata’, ‘Giovanni di Xlat‘’, ‘Gregorio Cerenc‘’ di Xlat‘’, ‘Gregorio di Karin’, ‘Gregorio III Pahlawuni’, ‘Isacco di Tabriz’, ‘Melchisedec e Karapet di Van’, ‘Mirak‘ di Tabriz’, ‘Paronloys di Teodosia’, ‘Sayat-Nova’, ‘Stefano Vardapet, Pietro di Xizan, Stefano di Sorb’, ‘Yimar di Van’, in: Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali (Biblioteca Sanctorum Orientalium), eds. J.-N. CANELLAS et al., (Rome: Città Nuova, 1998?1999), vol. I, coll. 135, 369, 951–952, 1126–1127; vol. II, coll. 82, 85, 134–135, 246–247, 477, 538, 788–789, 943–944, 1115, 1359–1360.
Scientific translation and editing
- Translation from Armenian and editing of: Zh. Khachatrian, ‘Artaxata, Capitale dell’Armenia antica, II s. a.C. – IV s. d.C.’, in: Ai piedi dell’Ararat: Artaxata e l’Armenia ellenistico-romana, ed. A. INVERNIZZI, (Florence: Le lettere, 1998), pp. 95–158.
Popularisation of research
- ‘? la découverte des Chrétiens des Trois Conciles’, in: Historia (Numéro Thématique) 82 (2003), pp. 60–67. (Synoptic history of the miaphysite churches)
- ‘Christologie de l’?glise d’Arménie’, in: Le Monde de la Bible 136 (2001), p. 32. (Analysis of the Armenian creedal formul?).
- Italian version, in: Il mondo della Bibbia 91/1 (2008), p. 32.
- ‘Présence arménienne en Terre sainte’, in: Le Monde de la Bible 136 (2001), pp. 44–47 (History of the Armenian settlements in the Holy Land).
On-going projects
- The editing of: Apocryphal and Esoteric Sources in the Development of Christian and Jewish Traditions: Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus and Beyond (in the series ‘Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity’), Leiden: Brill; proceedings of an international conference, March 2018 (see below); to be published in 2020.