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It was with the invention of the Armenian alphabet in c. 405 by Mesrop Mashtots, himself an ascetic preacher, that the Christianization of the population began to progress more quickly. The Bible, liturgy, the works of the main church fathers and other Christian texts were translated into Armenian for the first time. [53]
The Feast of the Holy Translators (Armenian: Սուրբ Թարգմանչաց տօն, Surb T'argmanchats ton) is dedicated to a group of literary figures, and saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church, who founded the Armenian alphabet, translated the Bible, and started a movement of writing and translating important works into Armenian language. [1]
Stone tools from 325,000 years ago have been found in Armenia which indicate the presence of early humans at this time. [16]In the 1960s, excavations in the Yerevan 1 Cave uncovered evidence of ancient human habitation, including the remains of a 48,000-year-old heart, and a human cranial fragment and tooth of a similar age.
Recent studies have shown that Armenians are indigenous to the Armenian Highlands and form a distinct genetic isolate in the region. [5] Analyses of mitochondrial ancient DNA of skeletons from Armenia spanning 7,800 years, including DNA from Neolithic, Bronze Age, Urartian, classical and medieval Armenian skeletons, [6] have revealed that modern Armenians have the least genetic distance to ...
The original Armenian translation has not survived. [55] Armenian Gospel Book from 1256. Erroll F. Rhodes enumerated 1244 Armenian manuscripts in 1959. [56] However, Rhodes did not take into account lectionaries and commentaries. The total number of manuscripts exceeds 1600, with 100 containing the entire Bible.
The first monument of Armenian literature is the version of the Holy Scriptures. Isaac, says Moses of Chorene, made a translation of the Bible from the Syriac text about 411. This work was considered imperfect, for soon afterwards John of Egheghiatz and Joseph of Baghin were sent to Edessa to translate the Scriptures.
Illustrated Armenian Bible from 1256. The Bible (Armenian: Աստուածաշունչ, 'Breath of God') has been translated to Armenian since the beginning of the fifth century. The invention of the Armenian alphabet by Mesrop Mashtots and Isaac of Armenia in 405 AD for lack of an alphabet sufficient for translating Christian scripture into.
The Armenian alphabet was created by Saint Mesrop Mashtots and Isaac of Armenia (Sahak Partev) in AD 405, primarily for a Bible translation into the Armenian language. Traditionally, the following phrase translated from Solomon 's Book of Proverbs is said to be the first sentence to be written down in Armenian by Mashtots: