Literatures of the Middle East: From Antiquity to the PresentWillis Barnstone, Tony Barnstone Prentice Hall, 2003 - 487 pages This extraordinary anthology gathers together a broad selection of representative, authoritative writings--spanning antiquity to the present--from the non-Western civilizations of the Middle East. It combines extensive introductions, headnotes, and bibliographies with excellent literary translations of the best contemporary and classical writers. KEY TOPICS: The selections reflect literary, religious, and philosophical traditions and reveal--despite cultural differences--the universality of life experiences. Primary literary genres (poetry, fiction, and drama) as well as key religions, philosophical, historic, aesthetic, biographical and political texts are covered. MARKET: For readers of Middle Eastern, World, and Non-Western Literature. |
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... Christian New Testament concern the lives of Jews who followed Jesus and Paul , who reflected one sect among other revolu- tionary Jewish sects , which included the Pharisees , Zealots , Essenes , and early Gnostics . The gospels of the ...
... Christian texts are called Christian Apocrypha ; the Gnostic scriptures , today so fascinating and even modish , were called by their orthodox rivals heretical . Had events been otherwise and certain of these inspired texts incorporated ...
... Christian- ity and the victory of the orthodox , the Gnostic texts disappeared ; they were destroyed or left uncopied , achieving the same end . Until a few years ago , the loss appeared so complete that we relied for information ...
Table des matières
Introduction to Section | 5 |
Poetry | 7 |
The Pyramid Texts 24642355 B C | 14 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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