02722nam a2200301 i 4500 EG-ScBUE 20240530101419.0 161110s2012 enkab f b 001 0 eng d 9781780220253 EG-ScBUE eng rda EG-ScBUE EG-ScBUE a-is--- awba--- 956.94420099 SEB 22 Sebag Montefiore, Simon, author. Jerusalem : the biography / Simon Sebag Montefiore. London : Phoenix, 2012. xliv, 720 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 20 cm rdacontent text txt unmediated rdamedia n volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgment 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. --From publisher description. Suzan Ashmawy ; revised by Fouad. Jerusalem History. BUEsh Middle East Jerusalem. BUEsh BUSBOL November2016 BestSellers Reading book ddc BB 23087 23059 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2016-11-10 Purchase 96.00 25146 0 956.94420099 SEB 000045094 2025-07-15 00:00:00 1125.00 2016-11-10 BB