America, Arabic, and Islam
The daily newspaper reminds us that Mesopotamia and Egypt are by no means out of history. The Near East is again the place in which the course of history is to be decided. And yet how little we know about the great people who live between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, and how much less do...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1916
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| In: |
The biblical world
Year: 1916, Volume: 47, Issue: 6, Pages: 371-381 |
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| Summary: | The daily newspaper reminds us that Mesopotamia and Egypt are by no means out of history. The Near East is again the place in which the course of history is to be decided. And yet how little we know about the great people who live between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, and how much less do we know of their literature. Perhaps we may yet thank the present war for arousing human interest in peoples and lands which, as a college student once put it, we had thought of as "just something in the Bible." |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The biblical world
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/475540 |