Browsing by Author "Russell, James"
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Mithra
Russell, James R. (International Scientific Council for the study of the Armenian Genocide, 2015) -
Noah: From Armenian Ararat to Persian Jamshid and “All the Rest.”
Russell, James R. (2015) -
A Note on Armenian hrmštk-el
Russell, James R. (Brill, 2014-05-13)The hapax *framaštaq in the Babylonian Talmud is a loan from a Middle Iranian slang word for the penis; from its base comes the common Armenian verb hrmštkel, "to shove in", which is not attested in Classical texts and ... -
A Note on Balaam’s Chimaera
Russell, James R. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2017)The Biblical tale of Balaam and his taking donkey was elaborated in the Babylonian Talmud: Balaam commits bestiality with the animal and this is accounted one of his failings as a pagan prophet, which accumulate as he tries ... -
Odysseus and a Phoenician tale
Russell, James (Saint Petersburg State University, 2018)The question of the authorship of the two Homeric epics— whether there was one Homer, or two— has vexed scholars since the inception of critical literary study. The more bellicose, less inner and mysterious Iliad was by ... -
On An Armenian Magical Manuscript (New York, Jewish Theological Seminary, MS 10558)
Russell, James R. (Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 2013)This paper examines some unusual features of a modern Armenian magical manuscript. The manuscript belonged to a Sephardic Jew, who annotated it, translating and transliterating some terms into Hebrew – a rare phenomenon ... -
On an Armenian Word List from the Cairo Geniza
Russell, James R. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2013)This study deals with a short text on a small piece of paper, a conversational glossary, found in the Cairo Geniza. It is likely to be nearly a millennium old, and consists of a list of twenty Judaeo-Arabic words and phrases ... -
On the Image of Zoroaster
Russell, James R. (2013-11-19) -
Preface
Russell, James R. (Ecco, 2016) -
Reclaiming the Sermon on the Mount: On the composition of the prayer Ashrei.
Russell, James R. (2017-09) -
Review of Loren Graham, Lonely Ideas
Russell, James R. (Elsevier, 2014) -
Review of Michael E. Stone's, Secret Groups in Ancient Judaism,
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The Science of Parting: Eliade, Iranian Shamanism, and the View from Tomis
Russell, James R. (Romanian Association for the History of Religions, 2010) -
The Script of the Dove: An Armenian Hetaerogram
Russell, James R. (National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, 2010) -
The Seh-lerai Language
Russell, James R. (National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, 2012-12-06) -
A Tale of Two Secret Books
Russell, James R. (The Free Univeristy of Berlin and the Max Planck Institute, 2011) -
Zoroastrianism in Armenia
Russell, James R. (Harvard University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, 1987)