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THE ROLE AND PLACE OF THE ARMENIAN HIGHLAND IN “BIBLICAL GEOPOLTICS” – 2015-1

Summary

David K. Babayan

Key words – Biblical geopolitics, Armenian highland, Paradise, Bible, Avesta, Quran, Talmud, cradle of human civilization, oldest place of religion formation.

The article reviews the sacral and civilization significance of the Armenian Highland. Mythological, religious and historical narratives and facts related to this location are presented and analyzed. Conclusions are made about the significance of the Armenian Highland from those perspectives in ideological and practical dimensions.

ORIGINS OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN MAMLUK SULTANATE AND CILICIAN ARMENIA – 2015-1

Summary

Gagik G. Danielyan

Key words – Mamluk Sultanate, Mongols, Il-khanate, Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, Ketbugha, Hetum I, Bohemond VI, Qutuz, Baybars, Armenian-Mamluk relations.

In the middle of the XIII century important events occurred in Egypt that changed drastically the political situation not only in Egypt, but in the Middle East as a whole. In 1250, as a result of the overthrow of the Ayyūbid dynasty, the Mamlūks seized the power in Cairo and established the Mamlūk Sultanate (1250-1517). A few years later, another great political power came into existence in the region – the Mongol Il-khanate of Persia (1256-1335). The Cilician Armenian Kingdom, which had already submitted to Mongol suzerainty, was also involved into a constant struggle between the two states. In 1260 king Het’um tооk an active part in the Mongol invasion of Syria led by Hulegu. However, after the Mongol defeat at ’Ayn Ğālūt, the Mongol-Armenian alliance became the main reason for strained relations between Cilician Armenia and the Mamlūk Sultanate, that soon developed into a direct military confrontation.

YERVAND KOCHAR. PROFOUND OBEDIENCE – 2015-1

Summary

Ruben S. Angaladyan

Key words – Paris, Soviet Armenia, European painting, Paris galleries, surrealism, space painting, sculpture, drawing, national epos, national traditions, large synthesis.

Ruben Angaladyan’s essay is dedicated to Yervand Kochar, who is one of the most original representatives of the Armenian and world art of the 20th century. In his work, the author presents in details the surrealistic paintings of the master created in 1923-1936 in Paris. The author regrets about Kochar’s returning to Soviet Armenia in 1936, when he was already a world famous artist. Despite the fact that in his homeland he created a series of remarkable paintings and carved magnificent sculptures of David of Sasson and Vardan Mamikonyan, but the dictatorship of Stalin did not allow Yervand Kochar to continue and complete his complex synthesis in the sphere of surrealist art.

GEOPOLITICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SECTS – 2015-1

Summary

Sasun L. Saribekyan

Key words – sect, totalitarian sect, global masonry, geopolitical function, geopolitical agent, New World, antichristianism, association of religions, religious intervention, mind control, “New Age”, “Jehovah’s Witnesses”, Mormons.

Sects are important actors in the geopolitics: their activities are directed against states and the ethnos because of the establishment of a very dangerous world order for them, union of religions and destruction of the Christian civilization. Separating the world population and eliminating its quality, the sects have drastically negative effect on the geopolitical resources, situation, strength, competitiveness, relations, security and development of the given country, in particular, reduces the possibility of impacting beyond the state borders and providing counter-weights against different types of expansion applied by other actors.

Totalitarian sects are of great geopolitical importance, especially the “New Age”, “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” (Mormons), “Jehovah’s Witnesses”, “Church of Scientology”, “Unification Church (Sect of Mun)”, “International Society for Krishna Consciousness” and “TranscendentalMeditation”.

«BEING» IN ARMENIAN – 2015-1

On the issues of the translation into Armenian of some of the key terms of Martin Heidegger’s work “Being and Time”.

Summary

Ashot V. Voskanian

Key words – Heidegger, philosophical translation, fundamental ontology, Being, entity, Dasein, existence

The article discusses some problems of translation of Martin Heidegger’s «Being and time» into Armenian. Some translation versions for such terms as «Sein», «Dasein», «Existenz» and their derivatives are proposed.

NEWLY FORMED WORDS IN ARAKEL SYUNETSY’S “ADAM’S BOOK” (“ADAMGIRQ”) – 2015-4

On the way from heaven to hell and back to heaven

Summary

Narineh A. Dilbaryan

Key words – Arakel Syunetsi, XIV-XV century, poem “Adam’s book”, vocabulary, new words, borrowed root, 10 nouns, 13 verbs, 30 adjectives and 2 adverbs.

Arakel Syunetsi was an Armenian religious famous figure, a poet, a grammarian, a musician, a philosopher and a theologian XIV-XV century. In this article we analyzed the new words in the poem “Adam’s book”, which is not in the dictionaries of the Old and Middle Armenian languages. This poem is about the exile of Adam and Eva from Paradise, the first sin and of Repentance. Syunetsi created 57 newly formed words. These words he created on the basis of Armenian and borrowed roots: 11 nouns, 13 verbs, 31 adjectives and 2 adverbs. Most of these words are used in the vocabulary of the modern Armenian, that is an evidence of the brilliant talent of Arakel Syunetsi.

THE PROBLEMATICS OF “OPEN HERMENEUTICS” AND W. DILTHEY’S CONCEPTION OF HERMENEUTICS – 2015-1

Summary

Romik Kh. Kocharyan

Key words – hermeneutics, understanding, interpretation, openness, lived experience, re-lived experience

This article considers three meanings of the “open hermeneutics” and demonstrates that two aspects of the first meaning are present in Dilthey’s theory in such a way, that the second aspect is in the basis of the first, and, moreover, his conception appears to us as just the embrio of the second meaning, which later was completed by H.-G. Gadamer’s conception of philosophical hermeneutics. In Dilthey’s conception the possibility of being of human sciences is self-understood by epistemological inquiry, and his conception of hermeneutics is formulated as the universal methodology of human sciences. The goal of Diltey’s methodological reflection is to understand and interpretively explicate the calling and truth of human sciences. He defined the own subject, experience and method of these sciences, in contrast to natural sciences. In his viewpoint, the goal of human sciences is not the establishing of general laws and concepts, but the understanding and interpretively revealing of the uniqueness of the individual phenomena as such. The subject of understanding is composed of three classes of expressions of life: the first is presented by concepts, judgments, and more complex structures of thought, the second class consists of actions, the third – of expressions of lived experience, the latter is just the preferable subject of understanding, and according to these classes there are elementary and higher forms of understanding.

ALLUSION OF THE VOICE IN WHISPERS – 2015-1

Based on the novel of the Romanian-Armenian writer Varuzhan Voskanyan “Book of Whispers”

Suumary

Ala A. Kharatyan

Key words – Varujan Vosganian, novel, the book of whispers, allusion, genocide, avenger, nemesis,voice, memory, Dro, Misak Torlakyan, M.Bakhtin, word, discourse, history, magical, myth, hyperreal

In the article “Allusion of the Voice in Whispers” the author analyses the reflection of Armenian Genocide in the “Book of Whispers” by the RomanianArmenian writer Varuzhan Voskanyan. In particular, the article analyses how the theme of Genocide is reflected in an entirely new way. This new way is here viewed by means of an analysis of the tone of voice, which depends on the contents of the material. Whispering is the intonation, in which the characters of the novel speak, and depending on the situation it either turns into loud voice or is reduced to silence, or it turns into discourse with history. Thus, voice becomes mythologically broad and encompassing, due to which it became possible to analyze and comment on numerous questions of content and ideology in the novel.

THE EPOCH OF ASHOT THE IRON – 2015-1

Part II: Reestablishment of the Armenian Kingdom

Summary

Arman S. Yeghiazaryan

Key words – Ashot the Iron; Armenian kingdom; catholicos; historical period; coronation; Ashot, son of Shapuh; shahnshah; Sbuk; Gagik Artsruni; Abas.

Ashot the Iron returned from Constantinople in 919 and immediately restarted the liberation war against the troops of Yusuf, emir of Atrpatakan, who have already crowned Ashot-the brother’s son of king of Armenia Smbat I.

There were 3 kings of Armenia at that time: Ashot the Iron, Gagik Artsruni from Vaspurakan and Ashot, son of Shapuh, crowned by Yusuf.

Successes of Ashot the Iron forced the emir of Atrpatakan to recognize him as a king of Armenia.

After Yusuf was captured in 919, Subuk, new emir of Atrpatakan proclaimed Ashot the Iron as a king of kings.

After Yusuf released and returned he attacked Vaspurakan, then left for Atrpatakan. He sent to Armenia Nasr al-Subuki as a governor. The army of Nasr was defeated by the troops of Ashot the Iron.

In 924 the battle of Sevan Lake took place. The Arabian army headed by Bashаr was defeated.

After Yusuf has died in 927, Ashot the Iron could liberate Armenia from the troops of Atrpatakan, restored the state system of the kingdom and beginning from the last yeаrs of his reign for a century Armenia enjoyed peace and was developing.

Ashot the Iron played key role in the history of the Bagratids kingdom. The figures such Ashot the Iron in the world history are called heroes of the epoch or historical persons.

SEVERAL ASPECTS OF THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN JOURNALIST- EXTERNAL ADDRESSEE – 2014-4

On the example of the Armenian media texts

Summary

David V. Petrosyan

Dialogical relationship between a journalist (author) and an external addressee in media texts develops in a very interesting way. If during a direct dialogue with external addresses journalist uses some role behavior: creates a direct connection with the reader, the elements of direct dialogue with the external addressee, etc., than the presence of over external addressees in the texts contributes to the creation of an atmosphere of understanding with external addressees. And while direct contact between journalist and external addressee, each party can become an author or a reader, as intertextual dialogues are conducted at several levels: author-author, internal addressee – author, internal addressee – another author, and so on.