Product Description: All major genres of Egyptian literature are represented in this anthology of poems, all translated into elegant English verse and providing an intimate glimpse into the lives of ancient Egyptians. The 41 pieces include hymns, such as Akhenaten's Hymn to the Sun , yarns, Ramesside love songs, laments, `schoolboy' texts and instructions, visions and religious thoughts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: When Sir Richard Burton visited Somalia in 1854, he was immediately impressed by the inhabitants' love of poetry. He reported: "The country teems with poets ...the fine ear of this people causes them to take the greatest in harmonious sounds and poetical expressions, where a false quantity or a prosaic phrase excite their violent indignation...read more

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Product Description: A history of mystical Islamic poetry, not only in Arabic and Persian, but also in the popular folk traditions of regional vernacular languages, including a chapter on Rumi and Sufi poetry

This third fascicle of Babylonian Planetary Omens contains the edition of all cuneiform texts dealing with the planet Venus known to us. Most of these tablets are kept in the British Museum; the large number of unpublished texts were transliterated and the previously published texts were checked and collated from the originals. The texts are accompanied by translations, and each group of texts is commented upon by David Pingree from the point of view of the text history and astronomical significance. A general introduction, also by David Pingree, analyzes the descriptions of Venus that occur in the texts in terms of astronomical phenomena. Indices are included to facilitate the study of this large corpus.

2-volume set. Contains annotated translations of over 300 Babylonian and Assyrian literary compositions. Among these works are compositions otherwise unavailable in English, previously unpublished, or incorporating newly discovered fragments. Among the compositions included are: Epic of Creation; Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld; Atrahasis; Tukulti-Ninurta Epic; Adapa and the South Wind; Adapa and Enmerkar; Etana; Anzu; The Babylonian Theodicy; The Dialogue of Pessimism; The Birth Legend of Sargon of Akkad; The Gilgamesh Letter; Dialogue between a Man and His God; The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer; A Sufferer's Salvation; Wisdom of Ugarit; Sumero-Akkadian Wisdom and Proverbs; Proverbs from Letters; Pious Scholar; The Netherworld Vision of an Assyrian Prince; Agushaya Poem; Sargon King of Battle; The Cuthaean Legend of Naram-Sin; Nergal and Eresh-kigal; Shulgi Prophecy; Agum-kakrime and the Return of Marduk; Nebuchadnezzar and Marduk; Marduk Prophecy; Antiochus Soter to Nabu; Advice to a Prince; The King of Justice; In Praise of Babylon; Erra and Ishum; The Poor Man of Nippur; Lament for Tammuz; To Calm a Baby; To Recapture a Runaway Slave; To Secure Brisk Trade at a Tavern; Love Lyrics of Nabu and Tashmetu; Elegy for a Woman Dead in Childbirth; Incantations against Disease; Acrostic Hymn to Marduk; Prayers for Kings and Gods.

Product Description: Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi's sweeping study of modern Jewish writing is in many ways a long meditation on the thematics of geography in Jewish culture, what she calls the "poetics of exile and return."Until the late nineteenth century, Jews were identified in their own religious and poetic imagination as wanderers and exiles, their sacred center–Jerusalem, Zion–fatefully out of reach...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The longing stretch toward the infinite . . . the reluctant embrace of the temporal. . . . This is the eternal lot of mankind. This is The Epic of Gilgamesh. Literature's first chronicle of search for meaning was born in the Cradle of Civilization over 4,000 years ago. Jackson's poetic rendition of humanity's first epic captures the passion and pathos of the search for the province and parameters of human existence, including an account of a great flood, paradise lost, man's relationship with gods and goddesses, and the inevitability of mortality. The universal themes explored in Gilgamesh continue to intrigue us in the 20th century.

Product Description: The longing stretch toward the infinite... the reluctant embrace of the temporal... this is the eternal lot of mankind; this is The Epic of Gilgamesh. Born in the cradle of civilization over 4,000 years ago, literature's first chronicle of man's search for the meaning continues to intrigue us with its universal themes This book has its provenance in Zeev Raban's fourteen remarkable gouache illustrations of The Epic of Gilgamesh...read more

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