This collection of Christmas literature--a selection of some of the best writings by authors from many times and places, including China, Syria, Egypt, France, Spain, England, Mexico, Canada, and the United States--enables readers to appreciate the dimensions of Jesus' birth. Works of art from the Far East, the Sudan, Russia, Hispanic America, and England underscore the universality of the story of Jesus. Chapters are arranged in chronological order and each is divided into literary genres--liturgy, sermon or treatise, drama, fiction, and poetry. Language in the early English work has been modernized, and several Latin, French, Spanish, and Arabic works are translated and published in English for the first time.
- ISBN10 0281047839
- ISBN13 9780281047833
- Publish Date 15 September 1994 (first published 1 July 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 December 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint SPCK Publishing
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English