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Jerusalemby Simon Sebag Montefiore
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.99Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the “center of the world” and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem’s biography... more...
Religion and Society in Roman Palestineby Douglas R. Edwards
Routledge 2004; US$ 44.95A collection of papers focussing on the contributions made by archaeology to the understanding of society in Palestine in the Roman period. The papers enable the two ways of evidence to interact in an unprecedented way. more...
Jerusalem In The Time Of The Crusadesby Adrian J. Boas
Taylor & Francis 2001; US$ 44.95Adrian Boas's combined use of historical and archaeological evidence together with eye-witness accounts written by visiting pilgrims results in a multi-faceted perspective of Crusader Jerusalem. more...
The Jerusalem Problemby Menachem Klein
UPF 2003; US$ 65.00Translated by Haim Watzman ''A unique account of a complex and subtle negotiation about the most disputed city in the world. Its point of view is clear, but it is nonetheless a balanced presentation. In place of generalizations it tries to get at what really happened. more...
The Temple of Jerusalemby John M. Lundquist
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 50.00A vividly detailed history of the Temple of Jerusalem, from construction to destruction, that takes into account the perspectives of various faiths, the religious and political symbolism surrounding it, and the attitudes and opinions about its future. more...
Jerusalemby Tamar Mayer; Suleiman A. Mourad
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 46.95With contributions from many noted scholars in a wide range of fields, this is a multidisciplinary study of one of the world's great cities that is of enormous, historical, religious and political significance. more...
The Origins of the 'Second' Templeby Diana Edelman
Equinox Publishing Ltd 2005; US$ 36.05Darius I, King of Persia, claimed to have rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem but this book argues that it was rebuilt under the reign of Artaxerxes I. more...
Jerusalem in Medieval Narrativeby Suzanne M. Yeager
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 40.00An original study of the political, religious and literary uses of representations of the holy city in the fourteenth century. more...
Saving the Holy Sepulchreby Raymond Cohen
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 24.95The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is the mother of all the churches, erected on the spot where Jesus Christ was crucified and rose from the dead and where every Christian was born. In 1927, Jerusalem was struck by a powerful earthquake, and for decades this venerable structure stood perilously close to collapse. In Saving the Holy Sepulchre, Raymond Cohen tells the engaging story of how three major Christian traditions--Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Armenian Orthodox--each with jealously guarded claims to the church, struggled to restore one of the great shrines of civilization. It almost didn't happen. For centuries the communities had lived together in an atmosphere of tension and mistrust based on differences of theology, language,... more...
Jerusalem in Ancient History and Traditionby Thomas L. Thompson
Continuum International Publishing 2004; US$ 150.00An international team of historians, archaeologists and biblical scholars discuss new perspectives on the archaeology, history and biblical traditions of ancient Jerusalem and examine their ethical, literary, historical and theological relationships. Essays range from a discussion of the Hellenization of Jerusalem in the time of Herod to an examination of its identity and myth on the Internet, while Thomas L. Thompsons informed Introduction queries whether a true history of ancient Jerusalem and Palestine can in fact ever be written.Contributors include: Thomas L. Thompson, Michael Prior, Niels Peter Lemche, Margreet Steiner, Sara Mandell, John Strange, Firas Sawwah, Lester Grabbe, Philip Davies, Thomas M. Bolin, Ingrid Hjelm, David Gunn... more...









