Fall Of Jerusalem

Author : Ben Witherington III
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830892846

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A Week in the Fall of Jerusalem by Ben Witherington III Pdf

It's AD 70. And amidst smoke, clamor, and terror, Jerusalem is falling to the Romans, its temple being destroyed. As Jews and Christians try to escape the city, we travel with some of them through an imagined week of flight and faith. A scribe makes his way into Galilee in search of records of Jesus' life and teachings. A company of women, responding to a prophecy, travels the route to a new life in Pella. We see friends reunited, join a worship gathering of Jesus followers, and discover treasured manuscripts. In this imaginative and entertaining narrative, New Testament scholar Ben Witherington leads us behind the veil of centuries to see and experience the historical and social realities of this epochal event. Allowing the light of what we do know to conjure possible events, A Week in the Fall of Jerusalem is a fun and informative journey into the wrinkles and folds of a lost story.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781460402801

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The Siege of Jerusalem by Anonymous Pdf

The Siege of Jerusalem (c. 1370-90 CE) is a difficult text. By twenty-first-century standards, it is gruesomely violent and offensive. It tells the story of the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE, an event viewed by its author (as by many in the Middle Ages) as divine retribution against Jews for the killing of Christ. It anachronistically turns first-century Roman emperors Titus and Vespasian into Christian converts who battle like medieval crusaders to avenge their savior and cleanse the Holy Land of enemies of the faith. It makes little sense without frank understanding of medieval Christian anti-Semitism. There is, nevertheless, some consensus that Siege is a finely crafted piece of poetry, and that its combination of horror, beauty, and learnedness makes it an effective work of art. As literary scholar A.C. Spearing has put it, “We may not like what the poet does, but it is done with skillful craftsmanship and sometimes with brilliant virtuosity.” The tale that the anonymous Siege poet tells, moreover, is an important and still reverberating part of the history of Western thinking about the East. It is, in Yehuda Amichai’s phrase, a “currency of the past” that continues to be negotiated. The first-century destruction of Jerusalem has been understood in both Christian and Jewish traditions as the beginning of the Jewish Diaspora; for medieval Christians it was also a model of successful Christian leadership and justified warfare, an allegory of political and personal spiritual battle. As part of the story of the historical rift between Christianity and Judaism—and of the inevitable victory of Christianity—the destroyed Second Temple was taken as symbolic of the fall of Judaism and the rise of the new Christian era in which anyone who rejected Christ would suffer. Written in alliterative verse in the late fourteenth century, The Siege of Jerusalem seems to have been popular in its day; at least nine fourteenth- and fifteen-century manuscripts containing the poem have come down to us. Yet this is the first volume to offer a full Modern English translation. In addition, appendices provide extensive samples of the alliterative original, a wide-ranging compendium of materials documenting anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages, comparative biblical passages, and much else.

Author : Conor Kostick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441126757

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The Siege of Jerusalem by Conor Kostick Pdf

The story of the final battle of the First Crusade The most extraordinary siege in medieval history began with the arrival of a Christian army at Jerusalem on the dawn of Tuesday, 6 June, 1099. Other sieges may have lasted longer, involved greater numbers of troops, and deployed more siege engines but nothing else in the entire medieval period compares to the extraordinary journey that the besiegers had made to get to their goal and the heady religious enthusiasm among the troops. This was the culmination of the First crusade, a military pilgrimage that had seen hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children leave their homes in Western Europe, march for three years over thousands of miles, and undergo tremendous hardship to reach their longed-for goal: Jerusalem. No other medieval army had made such a journey and no other army had such a peculiar makeup. There were hundreds of unattached poor women, gathered from the margins of Northern French towns by the charity of the charismatic preacher, Peter the hermit, and given a new direction in their lives through the expedition to Jerusalem. There were farmers who had sold their land and homes, put all their belongings in two-wheeled carts, and marched alongside their oxen. Bards came and earned their keep by composing songs about the events they were witnessing, from songs about the heroic charges of the nobles to bawdy satires on the lax behavior of some of the senior clergy. Naturally, knights and foot soldiers were at the heart of the fighting forces, but even here there was a strange fluidity to the army, with the status of a warrior rising or falling depending on his ability to keep his horse alive and his armor in good order. The Siege of Jerusalem offers a vivid and engaging account of the events of that siege; the key figures, the turning points, the spiritual beliefs of the participants, the deep political rivalries, and the massacre of the inhabitants, which left such a deep scar in the horrified imagination of those who learned about it, that it still evokes passionate feelings nearly a thousand years later.

Author : Oded Lipschitz
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781575060958

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The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem by Oded Lipschitz Pdf

The period of the demise of the kingdom of Judah at the end of the 6th century B.C.E., the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians, the exile of the elite to Babylon, and the reshaping of the territory of the new province of Judah, culminating at the end of the century with the first return of exiles--all have been subjects of intense scrutiny during the last decade. Lipschits takes into account the biblical textual evidence, the results of archaeological research, and the reports of Babylonian and Egyptian sources and provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the evidence for the history of this 100-year-long era. He provides a lucid historical survey that will, no doubt, become the baseline for all future studies of this era.

Author : Jerusalem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018837323

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The Fall of Jerusalem, and the Roman Conquest of Judæa by Jerusalem Pdf

Author : Flavius Josephus
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030261083

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The Fall of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus Pdf

It is fatal to show pity in a time of war. Led by the mighty Titus, the Roman army besieges Jerusalem. Arrows rain over the city day and night, and battering rams assault its defensive walls. Inside, the people curse their fate, resistant to the last but maddened by hunger. After days of rebellion, al last their city falls. The citizens plead for mercy - but as the Romans march on the Temple of Masada, the most sacred sanctuary of the Jewish people, flaming torches blaze above their heads . . .

Author : Stanley Lane-Poole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Crusades
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010351260

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Saladin by Stanley Lane-Poole Pdf

Author : Jonathan J Price
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004672482

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Jerusalem Under Siege by Jonathan J Price Pdf

This internal history of the Jewish rebellion traces factionalism among the Jews from the decades before the war's outbreak through the constantly shifting and dangerous alliances that reigned in Jerusalem from 66 to 70 C.E.; rivalries and divisions are revealed even in the structure of the Jewish army and in the patterns of famine and desertion during the siege. Classical, rabbinic, archaeological and numismatic evidence are brought to bear on a new interpretation of Josephus' Bellum Judaicum.

Author : Stanley Lane-Poole,David Nicolle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848328745

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Saladin and the Fall of Jerusalem by Stanley Lane-Poole,David Nicolle Pdf

Saladin is a legendary figure in the history of the Middle East. His rise to prominence in the tumultuous arena of twelfth-century Middle Eastern politics was rapid and he quickly established himself as an intrepid statesman as well as a formidable military commander of great skill, but equally a man of honor. This detailed biography of Saladin, and history of his life and times, was written by the eminent historian Stanley Lane-Poole, who was able to access the rich and colorful chronicles of Arab historians, which provide us with a brilliant insight into the life and deeds of this warrior-monarch.Based on a lifetime of study, Saladin and the Fall of Jersusalem examines Saladin s youth, his military development, his conquest of Egypt and Syria, the Holy War against the crusaders and, crucially, his duel with Richard the Lionheart, including the struggle over Acre and, of course, the fall of Jerusalem. Stanley Lane-Poole has rendered valuable service in his different works by presenting various phases of Oriental history and life in such a way as to interest even those to whom such subjects are ordinarily a sealed book .The American Historical Review"

Author : Flavius Josephus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Jerusalem
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112173765

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The History of the Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus Pdf

Author : Ward Sanford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1950645002

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Cry for Jerusalem - Book 1 63-66 CE by Ward Sanford Pdf

This is the first in a series of four historical fiction novels based on the writings of the eyewitness Josephus. In Act I of the book one begins to wonder if it was fate, destiny, or some divine plan that brought four very different travelers together in a struggle to survive what should have been a routine trip to Rome. These new friends and their families somehow found themselves playing critical roles at a focal point in the history of western civilization. For as winds helped to spread the great fire in Rome, they also carried embers east toward Judea, where they threatened to ignite a conflict that would forever change the world for Jews and Christians. In between the historical events of that time, there's the story of the people involved. You get to meet them in Cry for Jerusalem.

Author : Ken Jones
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004210271

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Jewish Reactions to the Destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 by Ken Jones Pdf

This book explores the reaction to the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 found in Jewish apocalypses and related literature preserved among the Pseudepigrapha (4 Ezra, 2 Baruch, 3 Baruch, 4 Baruch, Sibylline Oracles 4 and 5, and the Apocalypse of Abraham).

Author : Abdullah Schleifer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Fall of Jerusalem by Abdullah Schleifer Pdf

Author : George Henty
Publisher : Litres
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785041626990

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For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem by George Henty Pdf

Author : Hillel Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136852664

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The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem by Hillel Cohen Pdf

This book examines the politics of Jerusalem since 1967 and the city's decline as an Arab city. Covering issues such as the Old City, the barrier, planning regulations and efforts to remove Palestinians from it, the book provides a broad overview of the contemporary situation and political relations inside the Palestinian community, but also with the Israeli authorities.