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These have ranged from sophisticated text-critical analysis to methodological issues regarding the genre and the mode of composition of such texts, their significance as historical sources, and their diverse functions. The ever-growing interest in these compositions has not left the field of Armenian studies untouched. A recent collection of articles brought together in the Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition: A Comparative Perspective (Bardakjian -La Porta 2014) testifies to the productivity of research in this sub-field and underscores the importance of Armenian texts for appreciating the wide spectrum of eschatological speculations that characterized many of its neighbouring cultures and diverse religious communities.Terminology and its employment have been important in this discussion. Thanks to decades of research terms such as 'apocalyptic' and 'eschatology' have been scrutinized, better defined and continue to be refined according to further sub-categories and certain specific features. 1 Not all texts classified as 'apocalypses' -i.e. those revealing some form of secret knowledge -are necessarily concerned with the End of the World, i.e. the eschaton. Yet, those that outline the circumstances of the eschaton must contain a prediction, and thus a revelation, of something unknown that lies in the future. Therefore by their very nature eschatological prophecies are also apocalypses -revelations about the future -be those of * Research for this paper was carried out under the auspices of a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement n° 647467 -JEWSEAST ERC-funded Consolidator Grant JewsEast at Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum).