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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... Greeks and later Romans . Euclidian geometry was developed by an Alexandrian Greek , Euclid , but he based his formulation on the geometry practiced for thousands of years by master Egyptian builders . Egyptian art pervasively influenced ...
... Greek thought suggest a third - century text . The Greek word ekklesiastes is a translation of Hebrew qohelet , meaning “ a skeptical preacher , ” and skepticism and darkness of death is the theme of much of Ecclesiastes . We have some ...
... Greek . Although Paul's Letters were written in Greek , the gospels of Matthew , Mark , Luke , and John are later Greek versions of earlier lost ac- counts , both oral and written , from Aramaic and probably Hebrew sources . The ...
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Introduction to Section | 5 |
Poetry | 7 |
The Pyramid Texts 24642355 B C | 14 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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