Jerusalem
Subtitle: A Brief History
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Limited, John
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781405179713
Subjects: Jerusalem, history
Description: "This book shows how Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scriptures confer providential meaning to the fate of the city and how modern Jerusalem is haunted by waves of biblical fantasy aiming at mutually exclusive status-quo rectification. It presents the major epochs of the history of Jerusalem's urban transformation, inviting readers to imagine Jerusalem as a city that is not just sacred to the many groups of people who hold it dear, but as a united, unharmed place that is, in this sense, holy"--