The [six-week] course [at the Siegal Lifelong Program at Case Western Reserve University] covers the Georgian Jewish history from the sixth century BCE, when fleeing the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, they arrived in Mtskheta (the ancient capital of Georgia) to the modern era. The program will focus on the Georgian Jewish material culture, archaeological treasures, and literary corpus of Georgian Jewry, including extant Armazic Aramaic inscriptions, bilingual stelae, golden amulets, the Bret Bibles, the Lailashi Codex, and the Chianurashvili Tehillim (Psalter).For more on Dr. Gomelauri's work on the Lailashi Codex, see here and here. And for an important Georgian/Aramaic palimpsest, the Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus, see here and links.
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