East-West Poetry
Title | East-West Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Bidney |
Publisher | Global Academic Publishing |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1586842757 |
Poetry that responds to the Quran and to the tradition it created. Written for the general reader and the specialist, Muslim and non-Muslim, East-West Poetry responds to the Quran, scriptural heart of Islam, and to the tradition it created. An introduction relates the Quran to Hebrew and Christian biblical writing and to Rumi, who illumined the Quran with Sufi mystic wisdom; and we sample earlier Western poetic celebrations of Islamic culture. Rarely has a book been so timely as this one. It is an East-West collection that comes at just the right moment in our cultural history, now that America is reawakening to the plenitude of its varied traditions. The double role of the books author as researcher and poet benefits the reader of the 140 Islam-related lyrics offered here. Katharina Mommsen Martin Bidney has [brought] the Christian Gospel and the Muslim Quran together with the Torah to form a luminous torch of love and understanding. Khalil Semaan
Hymns from East and West. Being Translations from the Poetry of the Latin and Greek Churches, Etc
Title | Hymns from East and West. Being Translations from the Poetry of the Latin and Greek Churches, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | John Brownlie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | Hymns, Greek |
ISBN |
Hymns of the Eastern Church
Title | Hymns of the Eastern Church PDF eBook |
Author | John Mason Neale |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1862 |
Genre | Hymns, English |
ISBN |
Hymns of the Holy Eastern Church
Title | Hymns of the Holy Eastern Church PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Hymns, English |
ISBN |
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Title | The Poems of Phillis Wheatley PDF eBook |
Author | Phillis Wheatley |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2012-03-15 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0486115291 |
At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia
Title | Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Wickes |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2019-09-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0520302869 |
Ephrem the Syrian was one of the founding voices in Syriac literature. While he wrote in a variety of genres, the bulk of his work took the form of madrashe, a Syriac genre of musical poetry or hymns. In Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia, Jeffrey Wickes offers a thoroughly contextualized study of Ephrem’s magnum opus, the Hymns on Faith, delivered in response to the theological controversies that followed the First Council of Nicaea. The ensuing doctrinal divisions had tremendous impact on the course of Christianity and led in part to the development of a uniquely Syriac Church, in which Ephrem would become a central figure. Drawing on literary, ritual, and performance theories, Bible and Poetry shows how Ephrem used the Syriac Bible to construct and conceive of himself and his audience. In so doing, Wickes resituates Ephrem in a broader early Christian context and contributes to discussions of literature and religion in late antiquity.
Hymns of the Eastern Church
Title | Hymns of the Eastern Church PDF eBook |
Author | John Mason Neale |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2024-05-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3385463793 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.