Michael E Stone
Biographic Data
| ID | 615034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael E Stone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael E |
| FAMILY NAME | Stone |
| SIGNATURE | STONE M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6352-0431 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 84 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 83 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Early Armenian exegesis of Noah in the tenth-century manuscript Matenadaran M2679
This article examines an early Armenian parabiblical text concerning Noah preserved in manuscript M2679 (981 CE), the oldest surviving paper manuscript in Armenian. The text provides a distinctive interpretation of the biblical name-midrash on Noah found in Genesis 5:29, demonstrating how Armenian exegetical traditions both preserved and transformed biblical source material. In addition to presenting a comparative analysis of the Armenian text an…
Sixth–Seventh-Century CE Armenian Inscriptions of a Monastic Community in Jerusalem
Excavations in the Musrara neighborhood of Jerusalem uncovered four Armenian inscriptions within a monastic complex founded in the fifth–sixth centuries CE. The inscriptions were found on a mosaic floor, on tombstones and on a large pottery bowl, and together with the Birds Mosaic, they probably formed part of one monastic complex, in which Armenians played a significant role. As there is no hint in the historical sources of the existence of this…
Parabiblical tradition in mediaeval Armenia and its social location(s)
The aim of this paper is to commence seeking an answer to the following question: What function did the developed parabiblical (pseudepigraphical) literature play in medieval Armenian culture? The question is approached by the examination of markers in the texts that might show the use to which they were put and reveal the contexts in which the various types of literature were composed, or preserved, or developed. The issues of folk tales and ora…
The Middle Ages
The trade routes of Medieval Armenia show how international traffic between the Pontus and Central Asia passed through Armenia, which relates to Jewish presence. A number of historical sources for Jews in Armenia are presented. There were Jewish settlements in Dvin (seventh through ninth centuries), Vaspurakan (ninth century), Kapan (twelfth century), Vayoc‘ Jor (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries), and elsewhere. Furthermore, the recently disco…
Enoch’s revelations
This article examines the relationship between Enoch’s ontological state and the types of information that are revealed to him. Concentrating on two Enochic works, the Book of the Watchers and the Book of Dream Visions, this question is pursued both internally, that is within the works, and in a comparative fashion. Differences were discerned in the presentation of the seer in these two works
Esoterica Iudaica Antiqua: Some reflections
In this paper, I seek to isolate and seek out criteria for understanding the social functioning of esotericism in the period of the Second Temple. In addition to clarifying what is meant by “esoteric,” several other terms are considered: mystery and secret being the chief among them. The understanding of the terminology in studies of Western esotericism is investigated from a comparative perspective. The outcome of this research is then confronte…
Jews in Ancient and Medieval Armenia: First Century BCE - Fourteenth Century CE
It has long been the general opinion that there was no significant Jewish community in Armenia throughout the centuries. This book examines the evidence from written sources to archaeological discoveries and asserts that there were Jews in Armenia in the ancient and mediaeval periods. Tigran the Great transferred Jewish exiles to Armenia in the first century BCE. They settled in the chief cities of the land and were still there in the fourth cent…
A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus n…
Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
Armenian Philology in the Modern Era: From Manuscript to Digital Text
Philology is one of the most investigated fields of Armenian studies. At the end of the twentieth century, it was important to provide an overview of the main achievements and on the methodological approaches implemented in this field till now. This is the aim of the present publication. Part I focuses on the manuscripts, the inscriptions, and the printings. Its second section is devoted to the textual criticisms and the third section explores th…
The May 1 Marchers in Los Angeles: Overcoming Conflicting Frames, Bilingual Women Connectors, English-Language Radio, and Newly Politicized Spanish Speakers
In this article, we study protest participants in the May 2006 immigration rights marches in Los Angeles. Analysis of original survey data of 876 march participants yields five main results. First, despite substantial dispute among organizers on how to frame the marches, we find protest participants were similar across march locations organized by different coalitions. Second, we find Spanish-English bilingual participants seemed to benefit from …
Adam and Eve in the Armenian Traditions, Fifth through Seventeenth Centuries
CHAPTER 9 Eschatology, Remythologization, and Cosmic Aporia
Eschatology, Remythologization, and Cosmic Aporia
The Names of the Rivers
This chapter publishes a previously unknown Armenian text about the four rivers. The text, or something very like it, was at the disposal of the well-known medieval Armenian lyric poet, Yovhannēs T‘lkuranc‘i. Yovhannēs T‘lkuranc‘i (1450-1535) wrote a long poem on the acts of creation, a sort of poetic Hexaemeron called On the Creation of the World. The chapter gives translation of the relevant stanzas of T‘lkuranc‘i’s composition, with some brief…
Armenian Canon Lists VII: The Poetic List of Aṙak‘el of Siwnik‘ (d. 1409)
The present study constitutes the seventh member of a series of articles 1 in which I publish Armenian lists of biblical books. This article contains, principally, the poetic list attributed to Aṙak‘el of Siwnik‘, a well-known medieval Armenian poet, savant, and scholar who lived from the mid-fourteenth century until 1409. Aṙak‘el was the nephew of the famed theologian and systematician Grigor Tat‘ewac‘i (1344?–1409), whose own canon list was pub…
Housing and the Financial Crisis: What Happened and what to do about It
From Colony to Nation: Women Activists and the Gendering of Politics in Belize, 1912 - 1982
Anne Macpherson’s From Colony to Nation intends to recuperate the critical if not always consonant roles that working- and middle-class women played in labor organization, ethnic mobilization, and the forging of an antiracist, anticolonial, incipiently feminist nationalist movement in Belize (formerly British Honduras) during the six decades preceding independence in 1981. The author usefully situates these local struggles within the broader swee…
Adam’s Naming Of The Animals: Naming Or Creation?
This chapter examines the relationship between naming and creation, focusing particularly on Adam's naming of the animals. Jewish thought has assigned a major role in creation to speech and language. There are numerous statements in later Jewish thought about how God creates through speech, and equally, since the Torah is divine speech, about how and why he created with the particular words and letters actually used in Genesis 1. The oldest theol…
Epigraphica Armeniaca Hierosolymitana X
Epigraphica Hierosolymitana Armeniaca IX
Deux pages d'un même manuscrit grec de l' Évangile selon Jean dans deux manuscrits arméniens
The Interpretation of Song of Songs in 4 Ezra
The article deals with a passage of 4 Ezra that might well be an allegorical exegesis of Song of Songs. The usual allegory sees the bridegroom as God and the bride as Israel. 4 Ezra is contemporary with Rabbi Aqiba's statements on the allegory of Song of Songs, and is further evidence for the existence of allegorical interpretation. Yet it witnesses a different tradition of allegorical exegesis to the one usually found. This conclusion is compare…
Roads to change in Maya Guatemala: A field school approach to understanding the K’iche’– By John P. Hawkins & Walter Randolph Adams
What is housing affordability? The case for the residual income approach
This article seeks to increase the awareness of and support for the residual income approach to housing affordability indicators and standards, especially in the United States. It begins with an overview of various semantic, substantive, and definitional issues relating to the notion of affordability, leading to an argument supporting the conceptual soundness of the residual income approach. The concept is then briefly set into the historical con…
A Housing Affordability Standard for the UK
Since 1990 there has been extensive exploration of the meaning of housing affordability by members of the academic, professional and advocacy communities in Britain. These debates have revealed weaknesses in the traditional ratio standard of affordability and led to arguments in support of an alternative, residual income concept of affordability. However, so far there has been only limited success in operationalising and applying the residual inc…
The Housing Crisis, Mortgage Lending, and Class Struggle
The May 1 Marchers in Los Angeles: Overcoming Conflicting Frames, Bilingual Women Connectors, English-Language Radio, and Newly Politicized Spanish Speakers
In this article, we study protest participants in the May 2006 immigration rights marches in Los Angeles. Analysis of original survey data of 876 march participants yields five main results. First, despite substantial dispute among organizers on how to frame the marches, we find protest participants were similar across march locations organized by different coalitions. Second, we find Spanish-English bilingual participants seemed to benefit from …
Medieval Armenian Culture
Jews in Ancient and Medieval Armenia: First Century BCE - Fourteenth Century CE
It has long been the general opinion that there was no significant Jewish community in Armenia throughout the centuries. This book examines the evidence from written sources to archaeological discoveries and asserts that there were Jews in Armenia in the ancient and mediaeval periods. Tigran the Great transferred Jewish exiles to Armenia in the first century BCE. They settled in the chief cities of the land and were still there in the fourth cent…
Housing and the Financial Crisis: What Happened and what to do about It
Roads to change in Maya Guatemala: A field school approach to understanding the K’iche’– By John P. Hawkins & Walter Randolph Adams
Report of the Survey of a Medieval Jewish Cemetery in Eghegis, Vayots Dzor Region, Armenia
Cet article rend compte de la des premieres expeditions archeologiques envoyees a Eghegis, region de Vayots Dzor, Armenie, ou un cimetiere medieval juif a ete decouvert en 1997, attestant ainsi de la presence juive en Armenie au Moyen Age
(Enoch, Aramaic Levi and Sectarian Origins*)
The Death of Adam — An Armenian Adam Book
This short work was published by S. Hovsep c eanc c , and the present translation is made from that text. The only previous English translation is that of J. Issaverdens, from which this rendering differs at a number of points. A German translation based on three MSS was published by E. Preuschen. Since he offers neither an Armenian text nor any information at all about his MSS or their location, use has been made as far as possible of his transl…
Some Remarks on the Textual Criticism of IV Ezra
The student of IV Ezra is in the happy position of having a variety of versions at his disposal. The book exists in Latin, Syriac, Ethiopic, a number of complete and some fragmentary Arabic versions, Armenian, Georgian and even a fragmentary Coptic text. Yet, in spite of the number of versions, or perhaps because of it, the text of the book has remained the subject of considerable scholarly discussion. A critical review of the most recent theorie…
Catalogues of Armenian Manuscripts and Associated Works in American Libraries
the search for working definitions of kafr or mu'mmn ignores the fact that in the Qur'an a change in no one fault or attitude of the kafir would or indeed could have made him a mu'mmn. What he required was a combination of many strands-attitudes as well as actions-made acceptable only by the proper opening of his heart to God and the subsequent entry of God's grace and guidance. points to this kind of distortion of Qur'dn when he shows how commen…
An Armenian Translation of a Baraitha in the Babylonian Talmud
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The Testament of Levi. A First Study of the Armenian MSS of the Testaments of the XII Patriarchs in the Convent of St. James, Jerusalem
The politics of housing: Mortgage bankers
Armenian Canon Lists I — The Council of Partaw (768 C. E.)
There is a good deal of very interesting material preserved in the Armenian tradition belonging to the general category of Canon Lists. Some of this has been published and some not; very little of it has been translated into European languages. The series of studies of which the present note is the first will make available in a single place some of the most interesting of those lists which have been published in Armenian, as well as certain new …
The Teaching of Saint Gregory: An Early Armenian Catechism
Armenian Canon Lists II—The Stichometry of Anania of Shirak (c. 615 - c. 690 CE.)
This stichometric list is almost altogether unknown to Western scholarship. Yet it is a rather accurate translation of a Greek stichometric list of the same character as the Stichometry of Nicephorus. The text has been published four times in Armenian, each edition based on a different manuscript or manuscripts. The edition of Ter Movsessian was based upon one manuscript—olim Etchmiadzin 154, a Bible dated 1308, and that of Fehratʿian upon two—Vi…
The Housing Crisis, Mortgage Lending, and Class Struggle
Armenian Canon Lists III—The Lists of Mechitar of Ayrivankʿ (c. 1285 C.E.)
In the West, the best known Armenian Canon lists are those transmitted by Mechitar of Ayrivank ˓ , an Armenian savant of the thirteenth century (1222-1307 C.E.). The translation of these lists, which was first publicised in Europe by Theodor Zahn, has been reprinted in various works
The Enochic Pentateuch and the Date of the Similitudes
In a recent, extensive article in this Journal, J. T. Milik made public some of the conclusions which he had drawn from his studies of the Qumran Enoch fragments, conclusions which have serious implications for the history of Jewish literature in the last centuries before the destruction of the Temple. Two of Milik's conclusions about the Enochic literature will be examined here: first, that there was at Qumran an Enochic Pentateuch, and second, …
A New Manuscript of the Syro-Arabic Version of the Fourth Book of Ezra
Armenian Canon Lists IV—The List of Gregory of Tatʿew (14th Century)
One of the most inclusive of the Armenian Canon lists is that compiled by Gregory of Tatʿew (1346–1410 C.E.). He was a man of great and comprehensive learning, head of the monastery of Tatʿew, in the province of Siunikʿ. This was a most important center of Armenian learning, which flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
The Books of Enoch and the Traditions of Enoch
The figure of Enoch and the books associated with him are among the most fascinating products of Judaism during the period of the Second Temple. Revealer of heavenly secrets, regulator of the calendar, inventor of books and learning, Enoch is a multi-faceted and rich figure. The study of the literature of Enoch has been greatly enhanced in recent years by the publications of J. T. Milik. To him were entrusted the fragmentary manuscripts of the bo…
Concerning the Seventy-Two Translators: Armenian Fragments of Epiphanius, On Weights and Measures
The story of the translation of the Bible into Greek was widely known in early Christian literature. Epiphanius utilized various sources in his form of the story, which is given in On Weights and Measures, including the Epistle of Aristeas, as well as others. On Weights and Measures is known in three forms today, Greek, Syriac, and a recently identified Georgian version. Up to the discovery of the Georgian, the Syriac was considered to be the mos…
Reactions to Destructions of the Second Temple Theology, Perception and Conversion
Ancient Near Eastern Studies
ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES Get access The First and Second Books of Ezra (The Cambridge Bible Commentary, New English Bible) Commentary on 1 Ezra by R J Coggins and 2 Ezra by M A KnibbCambridge Cambridge University Press, 1979 xii+314 pages, indices $29.95 ISBN 0-521-08656-6 Michael E. Stone Michael E. Stone Hebrew University of Jerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of…
Scriptures, Sects, and Visions: A Profile of Judaism from Ezra to the Jewish Revolts
"Stone's "Scriptures, Sects, and Visions
Signs of the Judgement. Onomastica Sacra and the Generations from Adam
Apocalyptic literature
Medieval Armenian culture
Three Transformations in Judaism: Scripture, History, and Redemption
The purpose of the present paper is to study certain central lines of development of Jewish religious thought and the related transformation of Jewish society during the period of the Second Temple. The endeavour, because of its particular character, is primarily concerned with patterns of thought and their social correlatives. We do not intend to write a technical sociological essay, to compose a history of Judaism at that time, or to explore th…
Medieval Armenian Culture
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