Literatures of the Middle East: From Antiquity to the PresentWillis Barnstone, Tony Barnstone 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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... Gospel of Thomas at Nag Hammadi , Egypt , a similarly strongly Gnostic element should now be observed in John . In short , John is a mirror to a time of di- verse beliefs and philosophies , and key terms and concepts , from the Neo ...
... of the sayings in the Gospel of Thomas with their parallels in the synoptic gospels suggests that the sayings in the Gospel of Thomas either are present in a more primitive form or 200 Biblical Literature The Gospel of Thomas (c A D 200)
... Gospel of Thomas re- sembles the synoptic sayings source , often called “ Q ” ( from the German word Quelle , " source " ) , which was the common source of sayings used by Matthew and Luke . Hence the Gospel of Thomas and its sources ...
Contents
Introduction to Section | 5 |
Poetry | 7 |
The Pyramid Texts 24642355 B C | 14 |
Copyright | |
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