Jerusalem: One City, Three FaithsVenerated 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. |
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... took me to the shrine of Nebi Mūsā near Jericho , built to defend Jerusalem against the Christians , and the extraordinary Umayyad palaces nearby . When we drove through Bethlehem once , my Palestinian host stopped the car beside ...
... took me to the shrine of Nebi Mūsā near Jericho , built to defend Jerusalem against the Christians , and the extraordinary Umayyad palaces nearby . When we drove through Bethlehem once , my Palestinian host stopped the car beside ...
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... took a long time ; Kenyon claimed that the project was begun in the mid - fourteenth century but was not completed until the early thirteenth century . Some of the walls were thirty - three feet high , and construction was often ...
... took a long time ; Kenyon claimed that the project was begun in the mid - fourteenth century but was not completed until the early thirteenth century . Some of the walls were thirty - three feet high , and construction was often ...
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... took the country by the sword in the name of their God , an event that is usually dated to about 1200 BCE . The Bible speaks of terrible massacres . Joshua is said to have subdued " the highlands , the Negev , the lowlands , the ...
... took the country by the sword in the name of their God , an event that is usually dated to about 1200 BCE . The Bible speaks of terrible massacres . Joshua is said to have subdued " the highlands , the Negev , the lowlands , the ...
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... took part in the fertility rites of Baal . It was not until the exile to Babylon ( 597-39 ) that the people of Israel finally decided that Yahweh was the only God and that no other deities existed . They would then become very hostile ...
... took part in the fertility rites of Baal . It was not until the exile to Babylon ( 597-39 ) that the people of Israel finally decided that Yahweh was the only God and that no other deities existed . They would then become very hostile ...
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... took Isaac to the mountaintop which God had prescribed . But just as he was about to plunge the knife into Isaac's breast , an angel of the Lord commanded him to desist . Instead , Abraham must sacrifice a ram caught by its horns in a ...
... took Isaac to the mountaintop which God had prescribed . But just as he was about to plunge the knife into Isaac's breast , an angel of the Lord commanded him to desist . Instead , Abraham must sacrifice a ram caught by its horns in a ...
Contents
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CITY OF JUDAH | 56 |
EXILE AND RETURN | 79 |
ANTIOCH IN JUDAEA | 103 |
DESTRUCTION | 125 |
AELIA CAPITOLINA | 153 |
CRUSADE | 271 |
JIHAD | 295 |
OTTOMAN CITY | 323 |
REVIVAL | 347 |
ISRAEL | 371 |
ZION? | 398 |
Notes | 431 |
Bibliography | 446 |
THE NEW JERUSALEM | 174 |
CHRISTIAN HOLY CITY | 194 |
BAYT ALMAQDIS | 217 |
ALQUDS | 245 |
Index | 458 |
Readers Guide | 475 |
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