Jerusalem

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A revised edition of the classic bestseller
Jerusalem, with a recorded history of some 4,000 years, has been more familiar to more people for a longer period than any other place on earth.
This is the site of the mystic hill-city which was founded in the third millennium bc. This is the 'Urusalim' which appears in pottery inscriptions at the beginning of the second millennium bc. This is the city of David, who unified the Land of Israel and proclaimed Jerusalem the capital in the tenth century bc. This is the city of Solomon's Temple. This is the city where the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah gave utterance to thoughts that had an undying impact .on subsequent moral and religious attitudes. Jerusalem was also the scene of the last ministry of Jesus, and here that he was crucified. Moslems, too, hold this city holy, believing that it was from here that Mohammed ascended to heaven.
In its antiquity, its tumultuous past, its holiness, its monuments associated with the giant biblical... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A revised edition of the classic bestseller
Jerusalem, with a recorded history of some 4,000 years, has been more familiar to more people for a longer period than any other place on earth.
This is the site of the mystic hill-city which was founded in the third millennium bc. This is the 'Urusalim' which appears in pottery inscriptions at the beginning of the second millennium bc. This is the city of David, who unified the Land of Israel and proclaimed Jerusalem the capital in the tenth century bc. This is the city of Solomon's Temple. This is the city where the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah gave utterance to thoughts that had an undying impact .on subsequent moral and religious attitudes. Jerusalem was also the scene of the last ministry of Jesus, and here that he was crucified. Moslems, too, hold this city holy, believing that it was from here that Mohammed ascended to heaven.
In its antiquity, its tumultuous past, its holiness, its monuments associated with the giant biblical figures of distant ages, in the sheer enchantment of its location and the colourful pattern of its daily life, Jerusalem is perhaps the most dramatic city in the world.
This book captures that drama and flavour in its story of Jerusalem from earliest times to the present day. This revised and updated edition includes the latest exciting archaeological discoveries which have been made since the reunification of the city, in June 1967.
Jerusalem is richly illustrated, in colour and black and white, with both ancient engravings and maps and magnificent photographs of the city and its holy places specially taken for this book.
With 64 plates in full-colour and more than 140 black-and-white illustrations.
Teddy Kollek, former diplomat and senior government official, is best known throughout the world as the popular and dynamic Mayor of Jerusalem, to which he was elected in 1965 and reelected ever since. He has been responsible for the prodigious and tasteful development of the capital and its environs during his terms of office, ever conscious of the need to preserve the sites of the city's antiquity. A number of the documentary illustrations in this book are reproduced from his collection.
Moshe Pearlman, who lived in Jerusalem until his death in 1986, resumed his writing career after serving in the Israel Army and the government. His appointments included Director-General of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, Ambassador on Special Mission and Adviser to Prime Minister David Ben Gurion. During the 1967 Six Day War he was Special Assistant to the Defence Minister, General Moshe Dayan. The most recent of his popular history books are In the Footsteps of Moses, The Maccabees, The Zealots of Masada, Digging up the Bible and In the Footsteps of the Prophets.
front : Painting of Jerusalem from a nineteenth-century German sukkah (above) and (below) the Dome of the Rock, back: Part of the west wall of the city which bounds the Citadel. Vissza