Dr. habil. Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsTheology,Regional Studies
KeywordsJewish-Christian contacts in Late Antiquity, Christianity in Syria and the South Caucasus, Palaeo-Christian art, Apocryphal literature, Theological hermeneutics
Honours and awards

2007: ‘Prix Charles et Marguerite Diehl’, awarded by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres for an outstanding monograph in Byzantine studies, for Arméniens et Byzantins à l’époque de Photius (based on my PhD thesis).

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
InstitutionSOAS University of London
InstituteDepartment of the Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Jürgen TubachOrientalistisches Institut, Seminar Christlicher Orient und Byzanz, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale)
Prof. Dr. Armenuhi Drost-AbgarjanOrientalistisches Institut, Seminar Christlicher Orient und Byzanz, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale)
Prof. Dr. Jost GippertInstitut für Empirische Sprachwissenschaft, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2010

Program(s)

2009Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2016Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: Christ in Armenian Tradition: Doctrine, Apocrypha, Art (Sixth–Tenth Centuries). Peeters Publishers, 2016
2016Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Kingship and Hospitality in the Iconography of the Palatine Church at A?t?amar’. In: eds. C. Alzati et al., Costantinopoli. ???????? e ????????. Studi in memoria di Gilbert Dagron (monographic issue of the Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa LII, 2016/3). L.S. Olschki, 2016. 479-516
2014Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘The Cave of the Nativity Revisited: Memory of the Primæval Beings in the Armenian Lord’s Infancy and Cognate Sources’ (edited texts, critical study, illustration). In: Aram Mardirossian, Agnès Ouzounian, Constantin Zuckerman, Mélanges Jean-Pierre MAHÉ (Travaux et Mémoires; vol. 18). Association des Amis du Centre d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2014. 285-334
2013Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: Rückkehr zur Geburtsgrotte. Eine Untersuchung des armenischen Berichts über die Kindheit des Herrn. In: Theologie der Gegenwart, 2013, 30-43
2013Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: Travels and Studies of Stephen of Siwnik‛ (c.685–735): Redefining Armenian Orthodoxy Under Islamic Rule. In: Andrew P. ROACH and James R. SIMPSON, Heresy and the Making of European Culture. Medieval and Modern Perspectives. Ashgate, 2013. 355-381
2012Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: Studies of Armenian Christian Tradition in the Twentieth Century. In: Annual of Medieval Studies at Central European University, 2012, 137-152
2010Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Chiese non-calcedonesi’. In: Alberto Melloni, Dizionario del sapere storico-religioso del Novecento, vol. I. Il Mulino, 2010. 515-534
2010Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘La transmission de l’apocryphe de l’Enfance de Jésus en Arménie’. In: J. Frey, J. Schröter, Jesus in apokryphen Evangelienüberlieferungen (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament). Mohr Siebeck, 2010. 557-582
2009Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Exploration of the Kazakh Steppes and Semireč’e in Russia from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century’. In: G.L. Bonora, N. Pianciola, P. Sartori, Kazakhstan: Religions and Society in the History of Central Eurasia. U. Allemandi & co., 2009. 179-198
2009Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘L’Ermete armeno: un catechismo. Ermete il Tre-volte-grande ad Asclepio «Definizioni»’. In: Paolo Scarpi, La rivelazione segreta di Ermete Trismegisto. Mondadori (Foundation ‘Lorenzo Valla’; Scrittori Greci e Latini), 2009. 3-23, 393-406
2009Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Robert W. THOMSON, Nerses of Lambron. Commentary on the Revelation of Saint John’. In: Le Muséon, 2009, 231-236
2009Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Silence, Intellect and Discourse in the Quest for the True Teaching: Reflections on Hermes Trismegistos’s «Definitions»’. In: Adrian Pabst and Christoph Schneider, Encounter between Eastern Orthodoxy and Radical Orthodoxy: Transfiguring the World through the Word. Ashgate, 2009. 176-184
2008Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Nazionalismo e religione nella dinamica del Genocidio degli armeni (1915-1916)’. In: Francesco Berti, Fulvio Cortese, Il crimine dei crimini. Stermini di massa nel Novecento. Franco Angeli, 2008. 64-84
2008Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘The Churches of the Near East and Their Missions From the Persian to the Turkish Conquest, 604-1071’. In: Julia M.H. Smith and Thomas F.X. Noble, Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 3 (Early Medieval Christianities). Cambridge University Press, 2008. 65-85
2006Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘The Apostolic Foundation Stone: the conception of Orthodoxy in the controversy between Photius of Constantinople and Isaac Surnamed Mŕut (882)’. In: Andrew Louth, Augustine Casiday, Byzantine Orthodoxies. Ashgate, 2006. 179-198
2006Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘«Manto terrestre dell’immagine solare»: Note sul linguaggio cristologico di Gregorio di Narek’. In: Jean-Pierre Mahé, Boghos Levon Zekiyan, Saint Grégoire de Narek théologien et mystique. Pontificio Istituto Orientale (Orientalia Christiana Analecta, vol. 275), 2006. 113-138
2004Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: Arméniens et Byzantins à l’époque de Photius Deux débats théologiques après le Triomphe de l’orthodoxie. Peeters, 2004
2004Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘La découverte de la kénose de Dieu par la «Pensée faible La religion dans l’œuvre de G. Vattimo»’. In: Istina, 2004, 361-377
2003Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘La “Pâque d’Egypte” et la “Pâque de Jérusalem”: L’herméneutique de l’Exode dans les traditions chrétienne et rabbinique selon I.Y. Yuval’. In: Istina, 2003, 359-373