Hye Sharzhoom Armenian Action
Staff Report
A volume of scholarly essays devoted to the father of Armenian history, Movses of Khoren, is the latest contribution to Armenian studies by Dr. Dickran Kouymjian, Haig & Isabel Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies at CSUF. Traditionally, Movses Khorenats’i is considered a fifth century author, part of Armenia’s golden age, though some scholars, mostly in the west, attribute his History of the Armenians from its very beginnings to a later century.
The new book entitled Moïse de Khorène et l’historiographie arménienne des origines, [Moses of Khoren and Armenian Historiography from Its Beginnings] was released by the publishing house of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia in Antelias, Lebanon. The work was published under auspices of His Holiness Catholicos Aram I and is volume 7 in the series of publication to commemorate the 1700th anniversary of the conversion of Armenia to Christianity
The ten essays in the book were originally papers given at a conference on Movses with the same title, organized by Prof. Kouymjian in Paris in January 1991 under auspices of the Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales (INALCO) and the Ecole pratique des haute etudes (EPHE).
The essays are by the world’s foremost authorities on Movses including the late Gagik Sarkissian of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, Marc Nichanian, Columbia University, Robert Thomson, Oxford University, Dickran Kouymjian, CSU Fresno, Jean-Pierre Mahé, EPHE Paris, Bernard Outtier, CNRS and the University of Geneva, Jean-Michel Thierry, EPHE Paris, Krikor Beledian, INALCO and the University of Lyon, Levon Zekiyan, University of Venice, and Giusto Traïna of the University of Lecce, Italy.