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ENGL 205 & 206: World Literature : Middle East

Resources that will help with research projects for English 205 & 206

Useful books for Hebrew and Babylonian literature

Wisdom literature in Mesopotamia and Israel by Richard J. Clifford
Call Number: BS 1455 .W563 2007A
ISBN: 1589832191
Voices from the clay: the development of Assyro-Babylonian literature by Silvestro Fiore
Call Number: PJ 3601 .F5
Wisdom literature : a theological history by Leo G. Perdue
Call Number: BS 1455 .P424 2007
ISBN: 0664229190
The tree of life : an exploration of biblical wisdom literature by Roland E. Murphy
Call Number: BS 1455 .M83 2002
ISBN: 0802839657
An introduction to the study of wisdom literature by Stuart Weeks
Call Number: BS 1455 .W44 2010
ISBN: 0567184439
Ancient epic by Katherine Callen King
Call Number: PN 1307 .K56 2009
ISBN: 1405159472
The Eden narrative : a literary and religio-historical study of Genesis 2-3 by Tryggve N. D. Mettinger
Call Number: BS 1237 .M48 2007
ISBN: 1575061414
Old Testament parallels : laws and stories from the ancient Near East by Victor H. Matthews and Don C. Benjamin
Call Number: BS 1180 .M42 2006
ISBN: 0809144352
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.
Call Number: BL 312 .D37 2005
ISBN: 006019460X
The buried book : the loss and rediscovery of the great Epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch
Call Number: PJ 3771 .G6 D36 2007
ISBN: 0805080295
The Archetypical significance of Gilgamesh : a modern ancient hero by Rivkah Schärf Kluger
Call Number: PJ 3771.G6 K58 1991
ISBN: 3856305238
The Gilgamesh epic and Old Testament parallels by Alexander Heidel
Call Number: PJ 3771.G6 H4 1949

Useful books for Arabic literature

The literature of Islam : a guide to the primary sources in English translation by Paula Youngman Skreslet , Rebecca Skreslet
Call Number: BP 161.3.M6 S585 2006
ISBN: 0810854082
Islamic aesthetics : an introduction by Oliver Leaman
Call Number: NX 688 .A4 L43 2004
ISBN: 0268033692
The Cambridge companion to the Qurʾān by Jane Dammen McAuliffe
Call Number: BP 130.4 .C36 2006
ISBN: 052153934X
The Blackwell companion to the Qurʾān by Andrew Rippin
Call Number: BP 130.4 .B57 2006
ISBN: 1405117524
The Koran, a very short introduction by Michael Cook
Call Number: BP 130.4 .C66 2000
ISBN: 0192853449
Approaching the Quran : the early revelations by Michael Sells
Call Number: BP 130.4 .S43 1999
ISBN: 1883991269
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