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Jerusalem : The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore (2011, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100307266516
ISBN-139780307266514
eBay Product ID (ePID)102821551
Product Key Features
Book TitleJerusalem : the Biography
Number of Pages688 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMiddle East / Israel & Palestine, Middle East / General
Publication Year2011
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorSimon Sebag Montefiore
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height2.2 in
Item Weight39.1 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2011-020827
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"A fittingly vast and dazzling portrait of Jerusalem, utterly compelling from start to finish." -The Sunday Times (U.K.), “A fittingly vast and dazzling portrait of Jerusalem, utterly compelling from start to finish.� -The Sunday Times (U.K.)
Dewey Decimal956.9442
SynopsisJerusalem 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 is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women--kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores--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. Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime's study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice--in heaven and on earth.
LC Classification NumberDS109.9.S37 2011
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