The Roads from Bethlehem: Christmas Literature from Writers Ancient and Modern

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.