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Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE.
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Recent Publications:
"David’s Children in the Arts", in Tiemeyer, L-S. and Shepherd, D. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook on King David. (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
"Chapter 14 | Reimagining Abishag: Retelling Her Story", in Tiemeyer, L-S. (ed.) The Hebrew Bible in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry (Routledge, 2025)
"Chapter 7 | The Georgian Tradition, Saint Paul of Thebes: The Holy Anchorite in Georgian Manuscript and Ecclesiastical Culture", in Agaiby, L. (ed.) First in the Desert: St. Paul the Hermit in Text and Tradition. (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2024). pp.282- 321
The Lailashi Codex: The Crown of Georgian Jewry (Oxford, UK: Taylor Institution Library, 2023)
“Satan between the Sages and the Fathers.” In Studia Patristica. Vol. CXXIII - Papers Presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies Held in Oxford 2019: Volume 20: Biblica; Judaica; Philosophica, Theologica, Ethica, edited by MARKUS VINZENT, 123:385–98. Peeters Publishers, 2021.
Book Reviews:
Gomelauri, T. (2020) The Land and Its People: 1-2 Kings, Johanna W.H.Van Wijk-Bos. William B Eerdmans Publishing Company. Reviews in Religions and Theology, 28:2, 231-33.
Gomelauri, T. (2021) David in Distress: His Portrait Through the Historical Psalms. Vivian L. Johnson, Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2020 (ISBN 978-0-5676-9205-4), Reviews in Religions and Theology, 28:1, 69-71.
Gomelauri, T. (2020) The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar, Eitan P. Fishbane. Oxford University Press, 2018. (ISBN 978-0-19-994863-5), Reviews in Religions and Theology, 27:4, 518-520.
Conference Papers and Presentations:
The King David Code: Mystery of Psalm 30. LOGOS Fellows webinar, Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford (SCIO). 2022.
Job in Crisis. The Annual Conference of the British Association for Jewish Studies. World in Crisis: Reflections and Responses from Antiquity to the Present. University of Southampton and the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations. 2021.
The Book of Job: Enigma. The Oxford Branch of the Council of Christians and Jews. 2020.
Responsible Reading of Sacred Scriptures of the Religious Other. Conference of the Inter Faith Theological Advisory Group of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland on Crossing Boundaries of Faith – towards a Christian Theological Understanding of Inter-religious Ritual Participation: Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities. Glasgow, Scotland. 2020.
Exegetical (Ex)change: Jewish ‘Satan’ vs. Christian ‘Demon’. XVIII Quadrennial International Conference on Patristic Studies. University of Oxford. 2019.
When Commentary is Not Commentary: The Reception Commentary of 1 Kings 1-2. The Annual Conference of British Association of Jewish Studies on What is commentary? The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the University of Oxford. 2019.
Reading Job through the Lens of Moses. The Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion Annual Conference on Compassion and Theodicy: Practice, Thought, and Tradition. The University of Oxford. 2019.
What Would You Do on the Worst Day of Your Life? The Pointers by King David. The Oxford Branch of the Council of Christians and Jews. Pusey House. 2019.
Moses about Moses: Unusual Letters of the Torah. The Oxford Branch of the Council of Christians and Jews. 2018.
King David in the Great Scriptures v. Modern Biblical Scholarship. Study Day on The Great Scriptures: 500 years since the publishing of the Great Scriptures – Mikraot Gadolot. The Oxford University Chabad Society. 2018.
The Puzzle of Psalm 30. The Oxford Psalms Network. The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) at the University of Oxford. Pusey House. 2018.
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