Sergey Minov
- Leading Research Fellow:Faculty of Humanities / Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies
- Sergey Minov has been at HSE University since 2020.
Education and Degrees
- 2014
PhD
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thesis Title: “Syriac Christian Identity in Late Sasanian Mesopotamia: The Cave of Treasures in Context” - 2006
Master of Arts in Jewish Civilization
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
2020 — LabEx RESMED fellow at Sorbonne Université, Paris; project theme: “The Syriac Story of the Priest Paul and his Debate with Satan”
2013–2014 — Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Judaistik, Berlin, Germany; project theme: “Invention of Biblical Places and Formation of Cultural Memory in late antique Syria-Mesopotamia”
Courses (2022/2023)
- Research Seminar 'Ancient Hebrew Texts' (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2021/2022)
Publications20
- Article Minov S. Christians, Jews, and Magic in the Sasanian Realm: Between Confrontation and Cooperation // Entangled Religions. 2022. Vol. 13. No. 3. P. 1-66. doi
- Article Minov S. Of Men and Dogs: An Unpublished Syriac Fairy Tale from the Late Medieval Period // Aramaic Studies. 2022. Vol. 20. No. 2. P. 196-212. doi
- Article Minov S., Kessel G. Recent Publications on Syriac Topics: 2021 // Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 2022. Vol. 25. No. 1. P. 187-286.
- Article Minov S. A Syriac tabula gentium from the Early Abbasid Period: Dawid bar Pawlos on Genesis 10 // Christian Orient. 2021. Vol. 9 (15). P. 57-76.
- Article Minov S. Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Syriac Story of the Mystery Hidden in the Eucharistic Offering // Aramaic Studies. 2021. Vol. 19. No. 2. P. 198-214. doi
- Article Minov S. In Memoriam: Prof. Dr. Nikolai N. Seleznyov // Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 2021. Vol. 24. No. 2. P. 377-389.
- Book Minov S. Memory and Identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures: Rewriting the Bible in Sasanian Iran. Leiden : Brill, 2021. doi
- Article Minov S., Kessel G., Brock S. P. Recent Publications on Syriac Topics: 2020 // Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 2021. Vol. 24. No. 1. P. 217-298.
- Chapter Minov S. Rewriting Scripture as an Exercise in Counter-History: Apologetic Genealogy and Anti-Judaism in the Syriac Cave of Treasures, in: Christian Historiography between Empires, 4th–8th Centuries Vol. 23: Late Antique History and Religion. Leuven : Peeters, 2021. doi P. 145-162. doi
- Book Minov S. The Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands: A Representative of ‘Aǧā’ib Literature in Syriac. Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2021. doi
- Chapter Minov S. The Syriac Life of Mār Yāret the Alexandrian: Promoting the Cult of a Monastic Holy Man in Early Medieval Mesopotamia, in: Syriac Hagiography: Texts and Beyond. Leiden : Brill, 2021. doi Ch. 6. P. 160-222. doi
- Chapter Minov S. Translatio corporis Adae: Trajectories of a Parabiblical Tradition, in: Apocryphal and Esoteric Sources in the Development of Christianity and Judaism: The Eastern Mediterranean, the Near East, and Beyond. Leiden : Brill, 2021. doi P. 153-178. doi
- Article Minov S. Friday Veneration among Syriac Christians: The Witness of the Story of the Holy Friday // Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 2020. Vol. 30. No. 2. P. 195-222. doi
- Article Minov S. Food and Social Boundaries in Late Antique Syria-Mesopotamia: Syriac Christians and Jewish Dietary Laws and Alimentary Practices // Antiquite Tardive. 2019. Vol. 27. P. 69-82. doi
- Article Minov S. Date and Provenance of the Syriac Cave of Treasures: A Reappraisal // Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 2018. Vol. 20. No. 1. P. 129-230.
- Book Minov S., Kulik A. Biblical Pseudepigrapha in Slavonic Tradition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Article Minov S. Reception of the Greek Story of Melchizedek in Syriac Christian Tradition // Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. 2016. Vol. 26. No. 2. P. 108-143. doi
- Article Минов С. В. Зороастрийские мифологические мотивы и феномен христианской аккультурации в Сасанидской Месопотамии // Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом. 2015. Т. 33. № 2. С. 61-87.
- Article Minov S. The Story of Solomon’s Palace at Heliopolis // Le Muséon: Revue d'Études Orientales (Belgium). 2010. Vol. 123. No. 1-2. P. 61-89. doi
Conferences
Employment history
2019 — research fellow in the project “Stories of Survival,” headed by Prof. John-Paul Ghobrial (University of Oxford, Faculty of History). Web-site of the project
2014–2018 — research fellow in the project “The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity,” headed by Prof. Bryan Ward-Perkins (University of Oxford, Faculty of History). Web-site of the project