Participant Info
- First Name
- Thea
- Last Name
- Gomelauri
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- thea.gomelauri@ames.ox.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- University of Oxford
- Website URL
- https://oxfordinterfaithforum.org/dr-thea-gomelauri/
- Keywords
- History of Book, Jewish History, Georgian-Jewish History, Medieval History, Mediterranean Material Culture, Biblical history
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Dr Thea Gomelauri is an Associate Faculty Member of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, and award-winning Director and Founder of the Oxford Interfaith Forum. She is a biblical scholar, and public historian who works on investigating and preserving neglected literary and cultural treasures of marginal communities. Her research interests include Biblical Exegesis, Reception History of the Bible, and Biblical Manuscripts. She is a member of the Jewish-Muslim Research Network, the Bible and Religions of the Ancient Near East Collective, and the British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies. Her current research is focused on Georgian Jewry—the world’s oldest diaspora—and their forgotten contribution to the Jewish scribal traditions.
Thea has presented papers at the British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies, the International Conference of Patristic Studies, and the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. She has received the Interfaith America (formerly the Interfaith Youth Core) Award for Interfaith Leadership in Multifaith World, and The 2023 HM King Abdullah II ibn Al-Hussein Prize for the UN World Interfaith Harmony Week for organising the best interfaith educational events promoting Peace and Religious Education.
- Recent Publications
Gomelauri, T. David’s Children in the Arts. In The Oxford Handbook on King David, (eds), Tiemeyer, L., and Shepherd, D. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
Gomelauri, T. Saint Paul of Thebes: The Holy Anchorite in Georgian Manuscript and Ecclesiastical Culture. In First in the Desert: St. Paul the Hermit in Text and Tradition, (ed.), Agaiby, L. Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity 36. (Leiden: Brill, 2024). 282- 321. ISBN 9789004702219.
Gomelauri, T, with a contribution by Ginsberg, J. The Lailashi Codex: The Crown of Georgian Jewry. Oxford, UK: Taylor Institution Library, 2023. (ISBN 9781838464158; ISBN 9781838464141).
Gomelauri, T. (2021). Satan between the Sages and the Fathers. In M. VINZENT (Ed.), 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 (Vol. 123, pp. 385–398). Leuven: Peeters Publishers.
- Media Coverage
- https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2024/4/16/the-lailashi-codex-the-crown-of-georgian-jewry
- Social Media
- @TheaGomelauri
- Country Focus
- Worldwide
- Expertise by Geography
- Eastern Europe, Mediterranean, Middle East, Russia, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Ancient, Medieval
- Expertise by Topic
- Book History, Literary History, Material Culture, Religion
