Author: John H. MarksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Love and Death in the Ancient Near East
Author: John H. MarksLove & Death in the Ancient Near East
Author: John Henry MarksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Between Woman, Man and God
Author: Hagith SivanPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780567080554
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
According to the demands of the Decalogue, manhood entails the avoidance of stealing, killing, and coveting, not to mention apostasy and violation of the Sabbath and other men's property. What, then, would be the essence of womanhood, if different? By selecting female characters' narratives as interpretative clues for the "law," this book presents a legal, behavioral, and representational reading of the Decalogue. Beginning with an analysis of the legal contents of each Commandment through allied legal texts which relate to women and to the feminine, each chapter continues with an investigation of the ways in which the activities of the female and male protagonists of select narratives elucidate the range of Commandments.
Dictionary of the Ancient Near East
Author: Piotr BienkowskiPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812235579
Category : Iraq
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
An authoritative guide to the whole of the cradle of civilization.
Laylī and Majnūn
Author: Ali Asghar Seyed-GohrabPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004492437
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Nezāmī's romance Laylī and Majnūn (1188). It examines key themes such as chastity, constancy and suffering through an analysis of the main characters. Majnūn's asceticism, kingship, love-madness, poetic genius, ill-fate, and love-death are treated in separate chapters. The patriarchal society in which Laylī lives, her anxieties and dilemmas, incarceration, secret love, imposed marriage and finally her death are discussed in detail. One chapter is devoted entirely to the different ways parents raise their children and the consequences. Finally, the book gives an analysis of Nezāmī's style, the narrative structure of the romance and the symbolism of time and setting.
When Heroes Love
Author: Susan AckermanPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231132603
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King, Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, 'my friend whom I loved dearly'. This book examines the stories' sexual and homoerotic language and suggests that its ambiguity provides fresh ways of understanding ideas of gender and sexuality in the ancient Near East.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Author: Maureen Gallery KovacsPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804717113
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. It recounts the deeds of a hero-king of ancient Mesopotamia, following him through adventures and encounters with men and gods alike. Yet the central concerns of the Epic lie deeper than the lively and exotic story line: they revolve around a man’s eternal struggle with the limitations of human nature, and encompass the basic human feelings of lonliness, friendship, love, loss, revenge, and the fear of oblivion of death. These themes are developed in a distinctly Mesopotamian idiom, to be sure, but with a sensitivity and intensity that touch the modern reader across the chasm of three thousand years. This translation presents the Epic to the general reader in a clear narrative.
Love & Death in the Ancient Near East
Author: John Henry MarksPublisher:
ISBN: 9780931500053
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Fictional Akkadian Autobiography
Author: Tremper LongmanPublisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9780931464416
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
That autobiography in ancient literature is fictional has long been recognized. The purpose of Longman's study is to delineate the genre of fictional autobiography in Akkadian texts with similar texts from other ancient Near Eastern cultures. Included are the texts of all relevant fictional Akkadian autobiographies, as well as an appendix containing English translations of them. The results of the study are of interest to Assyriologists, but also have implications for students of comparative literature and the Bible.
The Book of the Torah, Second Edition
Author: Thomas W. MannPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610978951
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The first five books of the Bible contain many of its most famous stories, populated by vivid characters altogether human in their triumphs and failings--and an equally complicated deity. Many works of Western art and literature appeal to these stories, from Michelangelo's painting of Adam and Eve to a novel like William Faulkner's . The three great Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) are rooted here. So is much of Western political theory and constitutional polity, for a good half of these books contains legislation (torah) of various kinds, as indicated by the ancient title: the book of the Torah. Law and narrative together render the character of the ancient covenant community known as Israel, as well as the God who rules over that community. In this revised and expanded version of his popular book of 1988, Mann engages literary criticism and theology in attending both to the composite nature of the Torah (or Pentateuch) and to its final, canonical shape. Mann's study provides a lucid introduction to the heart of the Hebrew Bible, suitable for students and general readers, but also of interest to biblical scholars.