Michael Stone retired from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as Professor of Armenian Studies and Gail Levin de Nur Professor of Religious Studies. His academic activities have been devoted to two different disciplines, Armenian Studies and Jewish literature and thought in the period of the Second Temple. His research and publication have been divided more or less equally between these two fields. He is one of the editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls.Aram Topchyan is Head of the Department of Secular Literature and Philology at the Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts (Matenadaran), Yerevan, Republic of Armenia. He has written extensively on Greco-Roman and Early Medieval Armenian literature and has translated several important literary sources into English. He is also a prolific translator of world classics (from Classical Greek, Latin and English into Armenian): works by Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Apollodorus, Virgil, Ovid, MarcusAurelius, Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and others.

This is a unique book dedicated to the historical ties between the two ancient peoples. By taking a critical approach and skillfully combining the often not-so-rich and precise information from multilingual historical sources, the authors have reconstructed and rediscovered the various relations between the Armenian and Jewish peoples from biblical times to the 14th-15th centuries, thereby providing the scholarly community and the general public with a comprehensive and high-level academic study.

Michael Stone retired from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as Professor of Armenian Studies and Gail Levin de Nur Professor of Religious Studies. His academic activities have been devoted to two different disciplines, Armenian Studies and Jewish literature and thought in the period of the Second Temple. His research and publication have been divided more or less equally between these two fields. He is one of the editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls.Aram Topchyan is Head of the Department of Secular Literature and Philology at the Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts (Matenadaran), Yerevan, Republic of Armenia. He has written extensively on Greco-Roman and Early Medieval Armenian literature and has translated several important literary sources into English. He is also a prolific translator of world classics (from Classical Greek, Latin and English into Armenian): works by Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Apollodorus, Virgil, Ovid, MarcusAurelius, Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and others.

This is a unique book dedicated to the historical ties between the two ancient peoples. By taking a critical approach and skillfully combining the often not-so-rich and precise information from multilingual historical sources, the authors have reconstructed and rediscovered the various relations between the Armenian and Jewish peoples from biblical times to the 14th-15th centuries, thereby providing the scholarly community and the general public with a comprehensive and high-level academic study.

Michael Stone retired from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as Professor of Armenian Studies and Gail Levin de Nur Professor of Religious Studies. His academic activities have been devoted to two different disciplines, Armenian Studies and Jewish literature and thought in the period of the Second Temple. His research and publication have been divided more or less equally between these two fields. He is one of the editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls.Aram Topchyan is Head of the Department of Secular Literature and Philology at the Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts (Matenadaran), Yerevan, Republic of Armenia. He has written extensively on Greco-Roman and Early Medieval Armenian literature and has translated several important literary sources into English. He is also a prolific translator of world classics (from Classical Greek, Latin and English into Armenian): works by Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Apollodorus, Virgil, Ovid, MarcusAurelius, Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and others.

This is a unique book dedicated to the historical ties between the two ancient peoples. By taking a critical approach and skillfully combining the often not-so-rich and precise information from multilingual historical sources, the authors have reconstructed and rediscovered the various relations between the Armenian and Jewish peoples from biblical times to the 14th-15th centuries, thereby providing the scholarly community and the general public with a comprehensive and high-level academic study.