ENGL 205 & 206: World Literature : Middle East

Wisdom literature in Mesopotamia and Israel by Richard J. Clifford

Voices from the clay: the development of Assyro-Babylonian literature by Silvestro Fiore

Wisdom literature : a theological history by Leo G. Perdue

The tree of life : an exploration of biblical wisdom literature by Roland E. Murphy

An introduction to the study of wisdom literature by Stuart Weeks

Ancient epic by Katherine Callen King

The Eden narrative : a literary and religio-historical study of Genesis 2-3 by Tryggve N. D. Mettinger

Old Testament parallels : laws and stories from the ancient Near East by Victor H. Matthews and Don C. Benjamin

Don't know much about mythology : everything you need to know about the greatest stories in human history but never learned by Kenneth C. Davis.

The buried book : the loss and rediscovery of the great Epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch

The Archetypical significance of Gilgamesh : a modern ancient hero by Rivkah Schärf Kluger

The Gilgamesh epic and Old Testament parallels by Alexander Heidel

The literature of Islam : a guide to the primary sources in English translation by Paula Youngman Skreslet , Rebecca Skreslet

Islamic aesthetics : an introduction by Oliver Leaman

The Cambridge companion to the Qurʾān by Jane Dammen McAuliffe

The Blackwell companion to the Qurʾān by Andrew Rippin

The Koran, a very short introduction by Michael Cook

Approaching the Quran : the early revelations by Michael Sells