En Route, A Perpetual Need for New Origins: A Three-Book Cycle

Abstract

Having written two books in the main focusing on the Kurdish poet and author of modernistic narrative, namely Salīm Barakāt, the present writer just submitted a third book on relevant scripture, that is on the Hebrew Bible and the Qur’ān, and Mazdaism. The tentative title of the third book is The Tradition of the First Temple. The link between each book has nowhere been explained. And nor is there anywhere an explanation as to why these books follow one and other. The following brief paper attempts just that, as well as trying to explain our overall human attraction to a violent Middle Eastern civilization, and the writer’s own inability to detach her existence from Jacob, known as “Israel” and meaning something like ‘he who is a leader towards a righteous existence and defense of UrShalem the City of Peace.’

Keywords

• Aviva Butt on Salim Barakat
• Aviva Butt on scripture
• the cyclic return of the theme
• the ongoing poem finds a new myth
• the deluge that purifies the land

Kaynakça

1. Barakat, Salim (trans. Aviva Butt, 2024). Sages of Darkness (novel). New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford: Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas, Vol 18, Peter Lang Group, AG: 252 pp. (available as E-Book)
2. Boyce, Mary (2001), Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. London: Taylor and Francis Ltd. (2nd rev. ed., imprint Routledge).
3. Butt, Aviva (2021). Part II. Anthology in Salim Barakat, Mahmud Darwish, and the Kurdish and Palestinian Similitude: Qamishli Extended. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 270 pp. (From May 2023, available as paperback).
4. Butt, Aviva (2024). Tentative title: The Tradition of the First Temple: Peter Lang Publishing Inc., New York USA. Hamarash, Soran (2022). The Lost and Untold History of the Kurds: Rediscovering the Beginning of the Western Civilisation and Origin of the Indo-European Languages ca. 10000 BC-1300 CE. (Slemany, 1st Edition): 277.
5. Sonyel, Salâhi R. (2024) “The Fifth Centenary of The First Jewish Migrations to The Ottoman Empire” In: Türk Tarih Kurumu. 2024. Diğer Dergiler: Belgeler • Höyük. https://belleten.gov.tr/tam-metin/2217/eng DOI: 10.37879/belleten.1992.207. https.//www.ttk.gov.tr