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This long-awaited companion volume to The Literature of the Sages , First Part (Fortress Press, 1987) brings to completion Section II of the renowned Compendia series. The Literature of the Sages, Second Part, explores the literary creation of thousands of ancient Jewish teachers, the often- anonymous Sages of late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Essays by premier scholars provide a careful and succinct analysis of the content and character of various documents, their textual and literary forms, with particular attention to the ongoing discovery and publication of new textual material. Incorporating groundbreaking developments in research, these essays give a comprehensive presentation published here for the first time. This volume will prove an important reference work for all students of ancient Judaism, the origins of Jewish tradition, and the Jewish background of Christianity. The literary creation of the ancient Jewish teachers or Sages – also ­called rabbinic literature – consists of the teachings of thousands of Sages, many of them anonymous. For a long period, their teachings existed orally, which implied a great deal of flexibility in arrangement and form. Only gradually, as parts of this amorphous oral tradition became fixed, was the literature written down, a process that began in the third century C.E. and continued into the Middle Ages. Thus the documents of ­rabbinic literature are the result of a remarkably long and complex process of creation and editing. This long-awaited companion volume to 'The Literature of the Sages, First Part' (1987) gives a careful and succinct analysis both of the content and specific nature of the various documents, and of their textual and literary forms, paying special attention to the continuing discovery and publication of new textual material. Incorporating ground-breaking developments in research, these essays give a comprehensive presentation published here for the first time. 'The Literature of the Sages, Second Part' is an important reference work for all students of ancient Judaism, as well as for those interested in the origins of Jewish tradition and the Jewish background of Christianity.

Jewish religion --- Jewish religious literature --- History and criticism. --- Judaïsme --- 296*1 --- Hebreeuwse bijbel: targum; midrasj; bijbelcommentaren; haggadische verzamelingen--(algemeen) --- Rabbinical literature --- 296*1 Hebreeuwse bijbel: targum; midrasj; bijbelcommentaren; haggadische verzamelingen--(algemeen) --- History and criticism --- Jewish religious literature. --- Rabbinical literature. --- Hebrew literature --- Jewish literature --- Religious literature, Jewish --- Religious literature --- Jewish religious literature - History and criticism

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_This book introduces the literature of Islam as it is presented in English translation. For scholars in other fields who need to understand the vast and complex literary heritage of this erudite and vigorous faith community (but are unable to devote years of their lives to achieving a reading proficiency in classical Arabic), for faculty members called upon to teach introductory or survey courses outside their own disciplines, and for graduate students in theology, medieval studies, world religions, or related fields who need access to these primary sources in English translation, The Literat

Islam --- Islamic literature --- Muslim literature --- Religious literature --- 297 <01> --- Islam. Mohammedanisme--Bibliografieën. Catalogi

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Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds, Revised Edition illustrates the extent and frequency of political censorship of many kinds of literature. The entries new to this edition include works by Nobel Prize winners Wole Soyinka and Gao Xingjian, as well as works by Ha Jin and Edward Said. This edition also includes many updates to existing entries, such as Gulliver's Travels.

Censorship --- Censorship --- Prohibited books --- Religious literature --- Censorship --- Religious aspects. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Censorship. --- History.

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Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian --- Religious literature, Egyptian --- Tombs --- History and criticism --- Decoration --- Valley of the Kings (Egypt) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities