Jews in Ancient and Medieval Armenia: First Century BCE – Fourteenth Century CE 1st Edition

Jews in Ancient and Medieval Armenia: First Century BCE – Fourteenth Century CE 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780197582091, 0197582095

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0197582095
• ISBN-13: 9780197582091
• Author: Michael E. Stone; Aram Topchyan

It was once common consensus that there was no significant Jewish community in ancient and medieval Armenia. The discovery and excavation (1997-2002) of a Jewish cemetery of the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries in southern Armenia substantially changed this picture. In this volume, Stone and Topchyan assemble evidence about the Jews of Armenia from earliest times to the fourteenth century. Based on research of the Greco-Roman period, the authors are able to draw new conclusions about the transfer of Jews–including the High Priest Hyrcanus–from the north of Palestine and other countries to Armenia by King Tigran the Great in the first century BCE. The fact that descendants of King Herod ruled in Armenia in Roman times and that some noble Armenian families may have had Jewish origin is discussed.

Table contents:

1 “Ararat” and Armenia in the Bible and Associated Traditions

2 Jews in Armenia in the Ancient Period (First Century BCE to Fifth Century CE)

3 The Middle Ages

4 Other Armenian-Jewish Connections

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