Secret History Of Jerusalem

Author : IntroBooks
Publisher : IntroBooks
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Secret History of Jerusalem by IntroBooks Pdf

With the background of the Jerusalem being discussed, it is meant to enlighten the people about the secret history of Jerusalem and its hidden culture. The materials being presented is the summary of the philosophers and historians of the world. Much of the history of Jerusalem enlightens the readers about what all happened at the Temple Mount and the City of David after the era of the fall of the Roman Empire after the discovery of the lost temples in Jerusalem. To begin the journey of the history of Jerusalem, the geography of Jerusalem is presented with the use of maps and visuals and the exact location of the places of historic and religious importance. One can be enlightened about the greatness of the place with the impressive display of the “Temple Mount” complex that is known by the Arabs as the Haram esh-Sharif also known as the Noble Enclosure with the display of the impressive walls. There is a comparison made about the prophecies and forecasts made by Jesus Christ who spoke about the destruction of the holy city of Jerusalem and the Temple.

Author : Vincent Lemire
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520971523

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Jerusalem by Vincent Lemire Pdf

An expansive history of Jerusalem as a cultural crossroads, and a fresh look at the urban development of one of the world's most mythologized cities. Jerusalem is often seen as an eternal battlefield in the "clash of civilizations" and in endless, inevitable wars of religion. But if we abandon this limiting image when reviewing the entirety of its concrete urban history—from its beginnings to today—we discover a global city at the world's crossroads. Jerusalem is the common cradle of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, whose long and intertwined pasts include as much exchange and reciprocal influence as conflict and confrontation. This synthetic account is the first to make available to the general public Jerusalem's whole history, informed by the latest archaeological finds, unexplored archives, and ongoing research and offering a completely renewed understanding of the city's past and geography. This book is an indispensable guide to understanding why the world converges on Jerusalem.

Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307798596

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Jerusalem by Karen Armstrong Pdf

Venerated for millennia by three faiths, torn by irreconcilable conflict, conquered, rebuilt, and mourned for again and again, Jerusalem is a sacred city whose very sacredness has engendered terrible tragedy. In this fascinating volume, Karen Armstrong, author of the highly praised A History of God, traces the history of how Jews, Christians, and Muslims have all laid claim to Jerusalem as their holy place, and how three radically different concepts of holiness have shaped and scarred the city for thousands of years. Armstrong unfolds a complex story of spiritual upheaval and political transformation--from King David's capital to an administrative outpost of the Roman Empire, from the cosmopolitan city sanctified by Christ to the spiritual center conquered and glorified by Muslims, from the gleaming prize of European Crusaders to the bullet-ridden symbol of the present-day Arab-Israeli conflict. Written with grace and clarity, the product of years of meticulous research, Jerusalem combines the pageant of history with the profundity of searching spiritual analysis. Like Karen Armstrong's A History of God, Jerusalem is a book for the ages. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Karen Armstrong's Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life.

Author : Andrew Lawler
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593311769

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Under Jerusalem by Andrew Lawler Pdf

A spellbinding history of the hidden world below the Holy City—a saga of biblical treasures, intrepid explorers, and political upheaval “A sweeping tale of archaeological exploits and their cultural and political consequences told with a historian’s penchant for detail and a journalist’s flair for narration.” —Washington Post In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground, he discovered an ancient grave that, he claimed, belonged to an Old Testament queen. News of his find ricocheted around the world, evoking awe and envy alike, and inspiring others to explore Jerusalem’s storied past. In the century and a half since the Frenchman broke ground, Jerusalem has drawn a global cast of fortune seekers and missionaries, archaeologists and zealots, all of them eager to extract the biblical past from beneath the city’s streets and shrines. Their efforts have had profound effects, not only on our understanding of Jerusalem’s history, but on its hotly disputed present. The quest to retrieve ancient Jewish heritage has sparked bloody riots and thwarted international peace agreements. It has served as a cudgel, a way to stake a claim to the most contested city on the planet. Today, the earth below Jerusalem remains a battleground in the struggle to control the city above. Under Jerusalem takes readers into the tombs, tunnels, and trenches of the Holy City. It brings to life the indelible characters who have investigated this subterranean landscape. With clarity and verve, acclaimed journalist Andrew Lawler reveals how their pursuit has not only defined the conflict over modern Jerusalem, but could provide a map for two peoples and three faiths to peacefully coexist.

Author : Merav Mack,Benjamin Balint
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300245219

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Jerusalem by Merav Mack,Benjamin Balint Pdf

A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem’s libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world over, are not usually thought of as a distinct school; their stories as Jerusalemites have never before been woven into a single narrative. Nor have the stories of the custodians, past and present, who safeguard Jerusalem’s literary legacies. By showing how Jerusalem has been imagined by its writers and shelved by its librarians, Mack and Balint tell the untold history of how the peoples of the book have populated the city with texts. In their hands, Jerusalem itself—perched between East and West, antiquity and modernity, violence and piety—comes alive as a kind of labyrinthine library.

Author : Thomas A. Idinopulos
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000045606740

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Jerusalem by Thomas A. Idinopulos Pdf

Here is history in a grand manner--an absorbing saga of prophets, priests, and pilgrims, kings and conquerors, the story of a city besieged, defended, conquered, damaged or destroyed, and rebuilt 40 times in 30 centuries--always in the name of God. Illustrations.

Author : Hannah Arendt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101007167

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Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt Pdf

The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative—an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling (and unsettled) issues of the twentieth century.

Author : Yossi Klein Halevi
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062274823

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Like Dreamers by Yossi Klein Halevi Pdf

Winner of the Everett Family Jewish Book of the Year Award (a National Jewish Book Award) and the RUSA Sophie Brody Medal. In Like Dreamers, acclaimed journalist Yossi Klein Halevi interweaves the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem, tracing the history of Israel and the divergent ideologies shaping it from the Six-Day War to the present. Following the lives of seven young members from the 55th Paratroopers Reserve Brigade, the unit responsible for restoring Jewish sovereignty to Jerusalem, Halevi reveals how this band of brothers played pivotal roles in shaping Israel’s destiny long after their historic victory. While they worked together to reunite their country in 1967, these men harbored drastically different visions for Israel’s future. One emerges at the forefront of the religious settlement movement, while another is instrumental in the 2005 unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. One becomes a driving force in the growth of Israel’s capitalist economy, while another ardently defends the socialist kibbutzim. One is a leading peace activist, while another helps create an anti-Zionist terror underground in Damascus. Featuring an eight pages of black-and-white photos and maps, Like Dreamers is a nuanced, in-depth look at these diverse men and the conflicting beliefs that have helped to define modern Israel and the Middle East.

Author : Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307594488

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Jerusalem by Simon Sebag Montefiore Pdf

The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, from the bestselling author of The Romanovs • "Impossible to put down…. Vastly enjoyable." —The New York Times Book Review 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 is told through the wars, love affairs, and revelations of the men and women who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Lincoln, Rasputin, Lawrence of Arabia and Moshe Dayan. In this masterful narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore brings the holy city to life and draws on the latest scholarship, his own family history, and a lifetime of study to show that the story of Jerusalem is truly the story of the world.

Author : Rashid Khalidi
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627798549

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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi Pdf

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process. Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.

Author : Meron Benvenisti
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520207684

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City of Stone by Meron Benvenisti Pdf

Benvenisti Juxtaposes various eras, dynasties, and rulers in Israel's 3,000 year history in ways that provide comparative insights.

Author : Foucher de Chartres,Of Chartres Fulcher of Chartres
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1972-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0393094235

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A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem, 1095-1127 by Foucher de Chartres,Of Chartres Fulcher of Chartres Pdf

Author : Hannah Adams
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781429019781

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History of the Jews by Hannah Adams Pdf

With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.

Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 014198550X

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A History of the Crusades by Steven Runciman Pdf

The first volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades 'On a February day in the year AD 638 the Caliph Omar entered Jerusalem, riding upon a white camel' An enthralling work of grand historical narrative, Steven Runciman's A History of the Crusades overturned the traditional view of the Crusades as a romantic Christian adventure, and instead shifted the focus of the story to the East. With verve and drama, volume one of Runciman's trilogy tells the story of the First Crusade - from its unlikely beginnings in pilgrimage to the horrors of the siege of Jerusalem and the carving out of new territory on the edge of the eastern Mediterranean. 'Without question one of the major feats of contemporary historical writing' The New York Times 'The historian whose magisterial works transformed our understanding of Byzantium, the medieval church and the crusades' Guardian

Author : James Carroll
Publisher : HMH
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780547549057

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Jerusalem, Jerusalem by James Carroll Pdf

A “masterful” history of the city and its holy wars past and present, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Constantine’s Sword (The Boston Globe). How did this ancient Middle Eastern city become a transcendent fantasy that ignites religious fervor unlike anywhere else on earth? Jerusalem, Jerusalem journeys through centuries of conflict among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, right up to the present-day Israeli-Palestinian struggle—with fascinating examinations of how the idea of the holy city has shaped not just the region’s history but the world’s.