Literatures of the Middle East

Literatures of the Middle East
Author: Willis Barnstone
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN:


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This text ... gathers together a ... selection of representative, authoritative writings - spanning antiquity to the present. It combines extensive introductions, headnotes, and bibliographies with ... literary translations of ... contemporary and classic writers.-Back cover. In addition to literary texts, [this book] includes selections from religious and philosophical texts that have literary merit, such as the Old Testament, the New Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Gnostic and other intertestamental scriptures, and the Quran, as well as Sufi poems and teaching stories.-Pref.