A digital library of verified, open scholarship on all things Armenian, including Armenian history, the Genocide, Artsakh, language, and the diaspora.
What is being done to Armenian monuments in Artsakh now is not new and it is not vandalism. Seda Parsamyan traces the demolition policy of the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s and puts the legal question directly: when a state sets out to erase a people's churches, at what point does that become cultural genocide? She works through how the concept has been defined, redefined and quietly narrowed by people who would rather it did not apply. The frame she builds is the one now being reached for over Artsakh.
A 47-page study of how the Book of Daniel was received, read and redeployed in Armenian society from late antiquity through the middle ages. It connects directly to Cowe's own critical edition, The Armenian Version of Daniel (1992).
Sets the introduction of the Bible to Armenia and the process of its translation and reception against the wider socio-political, religious and cultural currents of Late Antiquity. Cowe notes how missionary religions became catalysts for the creation of new writing systems, and how Christianity's transition from illicit practice to dominant cultural arbiter raised the Bible's status as the physical embodiment of the divine word. He situates Armenia as a buffer state between Rome and Sasanian Persia, showing how that geopolitical position shaped its religious development, then works through the historical matrix of the translation, its parent texts, and the recensional history of the Armenian scriptures.
Cowe's 490-page critical study and edition of the Armenian version of the Book of Daniel, in the University of Pennsylvania Armenian Texts and Studies series. He cites it himself in his New Cambridge History of the Bible chapter, and it underpins his 2014 Brill chapter on the reception of Daniel in Armenian society.
A 44-page study of the two distinct Armenian versions of the biblical Books of Chronicles, examining their origin and their translation technique: a core problem in the textual history of the Armenian Bible. Cowe cites the article himself in his New Cambridge History of the Bible chapter, confirming its standing in the field.
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