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The Ararat-Eskijian Museum and the Armenian Cultural Visionaries will host a presentation by Dr. Abraham Terian, The Armenian Heritage in Jerusalem. Beginning with the earliest documentary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence for the Armenian presence in the Holy Land, Dr. Terian’s lecture will survey the history of the Armenian community in Jerusalem. He will review Jerusalem’s liturgical, monastic, and theological contributions to the fledgling church in Armenia, as part of the rich heritage of this community that thrived through the centuries as the earliest of the Armenian diasporas. The lecture will conclude with a description of the present situation and a reflection on what the future holds for the community and the historic Patriarchate. Dr. Abraham Terian, who grew up in Jerusalem and whose earlier Graduate education was in archeology and history of antiquity, is Professor Emeritus of Armenian Theology and Patristics at St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, New Rochelle, New York. Prior to teaching at St. Nersess, he was Professor of Intertestamental and Early Christian Literatures at Andrews University for twenty years, and for four years a recurring Visiting Professor for Armenian and Hellenistic Studies at the University of Chicago. He is an internationally renowned expert in the fields of Hellenistic, early Christian and Armenian theological literature, fields in which he has published extensively. In 2005 he became the first recipient of the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities award by the Fulbright Foundation, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) of the US Department of State, and the US–Israel Educational Foundation (US–IEF). In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. He now lives in Fresno, California, with his wife Sara.

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