description: PORTABLE PROFESSOR™ is a series of exciting and informative lectures recorded by some of today's most renowned university and college professors. Each course introduces listeners to fascinating, and sometimes startling, insights into the intellectual forces that shape our understanding of the world. Each package includes 14 riveting lectures presented by notable professors as well as a book-length course guide.For countless generations, people of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths have considered the city of Jerusalem the holiest of places. In this fascinating course about the social and religious history of Jerusalem, Professor F.E. Peters explains how and why the spiritual epicenter of the Abrahamic faiths has repeatedly been the locus of epic historic forces over the course of some four thousand years of existence.COURSE LECTURES 
   Holy Places, Holy City 
   The City of the Great King 
   The Fall and Restoration of Jerusalem 
   Jews and Greeks in Jerusalem 
   The Jerusalem of Jesus 
   The Great Wars (66-135 c.e.) 
   The "Mother of All the Churches" (325-635 c.e.) 
   The Distant Shrine: The Muslims come to Jerusalem 
   The Crusades 
   Jerusalem Liberated 
   Piety and Polemic: The Age of Pilgrimage 
   Travelers, Tourists, and Pilgrims 
   Through New Eyes: Jerusalem and the Moderns 
   From Then to Now: The Holy Places in the Present Age 
 
language: English
title: Jerusalem: City of God, City of Fire
titlecomplete: Jerusalem: City of God, City of Fire (Portable Professor: World History)
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Barnes & Noble Audio