The Book of Songs

Author: Joseph Roe Allen
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
Joseph R. Allen's new edition of The Book of Songs restores Arthur Waley's definitive English translations to the original order and structure of the two-thousand-year-old Chinese text. One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs that antiquity has left us. Arthur Waley's translations, now supplemented by fifteen new translations by Allen, are superb; the songs speak to us across millennia with remarkable directness and power. Where the other Confucian classics treat "outward things, deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works", Stephen Owen tells us in his foreword, The Book of Songs is "the Classic of the human heart and the human mind".

Book of Songs (Shi-Jing)

Author: Confucius
Publisher: Amber Books
ISBN: 9781782749448
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Claimed by some to have been compiled by Confucius in the 5th century BCE, the Book of Songs is an ancient anthology of Chinese poetry. Produced using traditional Chinese bookbinding techniques, this newly-translated edition is a selected anthology of 25 classic poems presented in an exquisite dual-language edition.

Heine's Book of Songs

Author: Heinrich Heine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description

The Homeric Epics and the Chinese Book of Songs

Author: Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527523799
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 509

Book Description
The Homeric epics and the Book of Songs are not just the fountainheads of the Western and Chinese literary traditions; for centuries they played a central role in education and communal life, and thus exercised a lasting influence on both civilizations. This volume presents the first systematic comparison of the two corpora. Part One analyzes their genesis and their reception, while Part Two discusses their characteristics as poetic creations. The book brings together Chinese and Western sinologists and classicists, and so promotes significant interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue. Though the contributors rank among the leading experts in their fields, the essays here are accessible not only to their peers, but also to the interested ‘general reader’, and so to all those who seek a deeper understanding of Chinese and Western civilizations, their common human basis and their characteristic differences.

The Illustrated Book of Songs

Author: Colm Boyd
Publisher: Uitgeverij Luster
ISBN: 9789460582486
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
They say that whatever you're going through in life, Aretha has probably recorded a song about it. Well, it's not just Aretha. Just been dumped? Roy Orbison has the song to get you through. Furious about the state of the world? Patti Smith knows how you feel. 'The Illustrated Book of Songs' is a collection of lists about the music that makes up the soundtrack to our lives, featuring hundreds of songs, old and new, famous and not-so-famous. With intriguing trivia, idle musings and cool illustrations of your favourite performers and songs. Illustrations: Patricia Ghijsens-Ezcurdia.

Music News

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 846

Book Description

The English School of Lutenist Song Writers: Third book of airs

Author: Edmund Horace Fellowes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Songs with lute
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Book Description

The Answer Book

Author: Nancy Ruth
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1490868895
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 157

Book Description
Will your children be ready to make tough life choices? Is Gods way really the only way? Can the Bible be trusted? Whether you are a Sunday school class or a group of friends meeting over coffee, these serious issues must be addressed. This user-friendly format adapts easily for adults, children, or mixed age groups. Choose how deeply you wish to go and how much time you want to spend. Equip yourself and your family to find the answers to lifes questions. Get three small-group guides in one book: adults, children, and multi-generational. The childrens small-group guide includes a Bible lesson.

Songs of Songs

Author: Tremper Longman
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802825438
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
In this commentary Longman unpacks what this ancient love poem reveals about the male-female relationship and about God's love for His people. Beginning with an extensive introduction to the book and its background, the author discusses Song of Songs' authorship, date, literary style, language, structure, and theological content.

Song of Songs

Author: Tremper Longman
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 1467423017
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
Relationships are a wonderful, mysterious, often elusive, sometimes painful part of the human experience. The most intimate of all human relationships, according to the Bible, is that between a husband and a wife. It is no surprise, therefore, that there is a book of the Bible, the Song of Songs, that focuses on this relationship. What is surprising is how little attention is given to the Song of Songs by scholars, by the church, and by readers of the Bible. With this volume Tremper Longman III unpacks for modern people what this ancient love poem says about the male-female relationship -- and, by analogy, about God's love for his people. Longman's superb study begins with a thorough introduction to the Song of Songs and its background. Longman discusses the book's title, authorship, date, literary style, language, structure, cultural milieu, and theological content. He also canvasses the long history of interpretation of the Song of Songs, a history too often characterized by repression of the text. In the commentary itself, Longman structures the Song of Songs according to its twenty-three poetic units and explains its message verse by verse. The exposition is made clearer by Longman's adoption of an anthropological approach to the text and by his frequent comparisons of the Song of Songs with other ancient Near Eastern literature. Learned yet highly accessible, innovative yet fully informed by past scholarship, this commentary shows the beautiful Song of Songs to be a timeless celebration of human love and sexuality.