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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... clothes over his neck and dressed himself in a fresh royal cloak that he fastened with a sash . When Gilgamesh put the crown on his hair the goddess Ishtar2 raised her eyes and stared at the beauty of his fresh limbs and sang " Come ...
... clothes among them and for my clothes they cast lots . The soldiers did those things . 25But near the cross of Yeshua stood Miryam his mother and his moth- er's sister Miryam of Klopas and Miryam the Magdalene . 26Then Yeshua seeing his ...
... clothes . The King entered the bath , and made the ablution thoroughly . When he finished , he put on his clothes , lay down , and slept . Meanwhile , the Sage Duban returned to his house , slept until morn- ing , and then went to the ...
Table des matières
Introduction to Section | 5 |
Poetry | 7 |
The Pyramid Texts 24642355 B C | 14 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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