Mari Mamyan

Work experience

• 2013-2019 Researcher at the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts Mashtots' Matenadaran, Yerevan/Armenia

Education and Training

• 06/2018 Defense of PhD thesis "The Armenian Gospel of the Infancy (Historical-Explorative Analyses)"
• 2011-2015 PhD student, Yerevan State University, Faculty of Theology, Yerevan/Armenia
• 2009-2011 Master's degree, Yerevan State University, Faculty of Theology, Yerevan/Armenia
• 2005-2009 Bachelor's degree, Yerevan State University, Faculty of Theology, Yerevan/Armenia

Publications

• “Protevangelium of James”, in: Armenian Theologian, Yerevan, 2013, pp. 21-37.
• “The Armenian Gospel of the Infancy”, in: Banber Matenadarani, Yerevan, 2015, vol. 22, pp. 334-350.
• “Adoration of the Magi”, in: Journal of Students' Scientific Society (SSS), Yerevan, 2015, pp. 12-19.
• “The Acts of Pilate” or the “Gospel of Nicodemus” in Medieval Armenia, in: Historical-Philological Journal of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, 2016, pp. 39-57.
• Co-translator of the “Ark’aun: the Mongolian Name of Christians Relating to the Issue of the Armenian Calcedonian” by Marr N, (from Russian into Armenian), Yerevan, 2016.
• The Armenian forbidden apocryphon: the “Gospel of the Infancy”, in: Etchmiadzin, 2017, pp. 46-60.
• The Armenian Translation of the "Gospel of the Infancy" and the "Protoevangelium of James”: Comparative Analysis, in: Banber Matenadarani, Yerevan, 2016, vol. 23, pp. 231-245.
• “Flight to Egypt. The Acts of Jesus in the Armenian "Gospel of the Infancy”, in: Journal of Armenian Studies, 2017, vol. 3, pp. 189-208.
• “On the Classification of the Apocryphal writings”, in: Armenological Issues, 2018, №2, pp. 112-126.
• “The Armenian Gospel of the Infancy in the Armenian Medieval Lists of Prohibited Books”, in: Banber Matenadarani №25, Yerevan, 2018, pp. 187-210.
• “The Armenian Infancy Gospel in Arak’el Bałišec’i's Ode to the Annonciation", in: Banber Matenadarani, №27, Yerevan, 2019, pp. 402-430.
  
• “The Armenian Gospel of the Infancy in the Armenian Medieval Cultural Milieu”, in: Herald of the Social Sciences, Yerevan, forthcoming.
•  “The Life of Judas”, coauthor with Hawk B., in: More New Testament Apocrypha, vol. 2, ed. by T. Burke and B. Landau, Michigan, forthcoming.
• The Protoevangelium of James in the Context of the ‘Armenian Gospel of the Infancy’, in: Studies on Early Cdhristian Apocraphya, forthcoming.

Articles

Articles written for the Online Dictionary of the Armenian Biblical Society:

• “The New Testament canon”
• “The Old Testament canon”
• “Genres  of interpretation”
• “Deuterocanonical books”
• “The Virgin Mary's belt”.
• “The Star of Bethlehem”
• “Divine providence”
• “Mary of  Magdala”
• "The Ptolomeans"
• “Entombment”
• “The prophets”
• “Vulgate”
• “Betrayal”
• “Canon”
• “James”
• “Virgin Mary”
• “The Hebrew”
• “The Greeks”
• “Ephesus”
• “Vision”
• “Egypt”
• “Saul”
• “Eve””

• Armenian Apocrypha
• Armenian history and literature
• Eastern Christianity
• Christian Theology