Robert W. Thomson
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Retired Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies at Oxford University.
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Faculty / College Address
Oriental Institute / Pembroke College
robert.thomson @ orinst.ox.ac.uk
Research interests
- Eastern Christian Studies: Armenian Georgian, Syriac, with emphasis on classical Armenian literature
Current Projects
- Editing (with translations and commentaries) various Armenian texts of historical or theological importance
Courses Taught
- Classical Armenian at all levels
- Elementary and intermediate classical Georgian
Recent publications
- Studies in Armenian literature and Christianity, Variorum 1994
- A bibliography of classical Armenian literature to 1500 AD, Turnhout 1995
- Rewriting Caucasian history: the medieval Armenian adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles, OUP 1996
- (ed.) From Byzantium to Iran: Armenian studies in honour of Nina G. Garsoian 1997
- with J. Howard-Johnston, The Armenian history attributed to Sebeos 1999
- The Lawcode of Mxit'ar Gosh (Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature, 6), Amsterdam 2000
- A Homily on the Passion of Christ attributed to Elishe (Eastern Christian Texts in Translation, 5), Leuven 2000
- The Armenian Adaptation of the Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus (Hebrew University Armenian Studies, 5), Leuven 2001
- Hamam: Commentary on the Book of Proverbs (Hebrew University Armenian Studies, 5), Leuven 2005