Jerusalem : city of longing / Simon Goldhill.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.Description: ix, 356 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 067402866X (alk. paper)
- 9780674028661 (alk. paper)
- 956.9442 22 G568j
- DS 109.15 .G66 2008
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956.9442 El68j c.1 Jerusalem, city of mirrors / | 956.9442 El68j c.2 Jerusalem, city of mirrors / | 956.9442 G139a The archaeology of Jerusalem : from the origins to the Ottomans / | 956.9442 G568j Jerusalem : city of longing / | 956.9442 G751w Where heaven and earth meet : Jerusalem's sacred esplanade / | 956.9442 Id3j Jerusalem blessed, Jerusalem cursed : Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy City from David's time to our own / | 956.9442 M458j Jerusalem : from the Ottomans to the British / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-340) and index.
The center of the Christian world -- The center of Jewish Jerusalem -- The center of Muslim Jerusalem -- The old city -- The oldest city -- The Victorian city -- The modern city.
Jerusalem is the site of some famous religious monuments in the world, from the Dome of the Rock to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Western Wall of the Temple. This work takes you on a tour through the history of this image-filled and ideology-laden city--from the bedrock of the Old City to the towering roofs of the Holy Sepulchre.
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