Alexander the Great or Būrān-Dukht: who is the true hero of the Dārāb-nāma of Ṭarsūsī?
Iran studies, 2023 This article presents a new reading of the Dārāb-nāma (Book of Dārāb, ca. eleventh–twelfth century), a medieval popular narrative in prose (dāstān) ascribed to the storyteller Abū Ṭāhir Ṭarsūsī. While the narrative belongs to the Persian tradition of the
Marina Gaillard
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Visualizing Pentateuchal Composition: A New View of the Creation of Ancient Hebrew Literature
Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East, 2023 This article describes a gap in scholarship on the Hebrew Bible, and demonstrates a way to address it via a digital humanities project that is at once a research tool and an interactive work of public scholarship.
Seth L. Richardson
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Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts in Minnesota: Handwritten, Microfilm, and Digital
Manuscript Studies, 2023 :This article is a brief overview of Eastern Christian and Islamic collections in Minnesota, with a focus on the holdings of the largest such collection, located at the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) in Collegeville.
Joshua Mugler
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A study of the Biblical novel in America, 1940-1949 : with a survey of the Biblical novel in general in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries [PDF]
, 1955 Englis
Bludworth, Rosa Lyon (George), 1904-
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The Origins of the Tun-Huang Popular Narratives and Their Influences on Later Vernacular Literature. [PDF]
, 1982 The purpose of this thesis is to understand as much as possible of the history of the popular Chinese literary genre called pien-wen. These texts date from the eighth through the tenth centuries and are important because they represent the earliest ...
Mair, Victor Henry
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Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora, 2023 Lyrical literature is one of the most important and famous types in Persian literature, which is used to express romantic themes and it has been common in various forms such as ghazal and masnavi (double-rhymed verses).
Alireza Dastmalchi
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Ze krijgen er niet genoeg van! Jongeren en gaming, een overzichtsstudie [PDF]
, 2008 Computergames staan onmiskenbaar en in toenemende mate in de belangstelling. Games zijn sedert hun ontstaan, ondertussen ongeveer 40 jaar geleden, van een subcultureel nicheproduct geëvolueerd naar een mainstream cultuurproduct met een breed doelpubliek.
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Source and revision in the narratives of David's transfer of the Ark: text, language and story in 2 Samuel 6 and 1 Chronicles 13, 15-16 [PDF]
, 2005 The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the relationship between Samuel and Chronicles in a single synoptic story: David's transfer of Israel's sacred ark to Jerusalem in 2 Samuel 6 and I Chronicles 13, 15 -16.
Rezetko, Robert C.
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Beowulf and the floating wreck of history [PDF]
, 2001 In his Introduction to A Beowulf Handbook, John Niles writes that future Beowulf studies are likely to reflect an increasing self-consciousness about both the historicity of Anglo- Saxon scholarship and the theoretical underpinnings of literary ...
Joy, Eileen A.
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South Arabia in the 5th and 6th centuries C.E. with reference to relations with Central Arabia [PDF]
, 2018 Although the history of South Arabia in the fifth and sixth centuries has not been studied to any great extent, the events of this period were of marked importance in the history of South Arabia in particular and of Central Arabia in general. Within this
Al-ʻAsalī, Khālid Sālih
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