From Servant to Devotee: Armenian Studies Come of Age in My Life

This article presents the author’s main areas of interest within Armenian Studies, and his chief contributions to the discipline during his lifetime. These are: a. the investigation of the non-canonical, extra-biblical traditions relating to the Old Testament among the Armenians; b. the establishment of the Association Internationale des études arméniennes; c. Armenian epigraphy and palaeography; d. the Album of Armenian Palaeography ; e. computer implementation of Armenian; f. the text of the Armenian Old Testament; g. the Armenians in Jerusalem; h. the Jewish cemetery at the village of Eghegis in Siwnik‘ (Syunik) province: and, finally, h. translation of mediaeval Armenian poetry.