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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... Jesus Christ and is also an account of Jesus ' followers , including his disciples and the crowds that traveled with this itinerant rabbi and healer around the hills of Upper and Lower Galilee , the fields of Judea , and the streets of ...
... Jesus ' body has disappeared . But Matthew also has a deep pathos and con- veys a sense of Jesus as a leader of the poor and the disenfranchised in an epic of hunger and hope . Matthew covers many aspects of Jesus ' life and mission ...
... Jesus said , " Blessed is the lion which becomes man when consumed by man ; and cursed is the man whom the lion consumes , and the lion be- comes man . ” ( 8 ) And he said , " The man is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the ...
Table des matières
Introduction to Section | 5 |
Poetry | 7 |
The Pyramid Texts 24642355 B C | 14 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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