Title:
Jerusalem : city of longing
Author:
Publication Date:
2008
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2008.
Physical Description:
ix, 356 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780674028661
Abstract:
Jerusalem is the site of some famous religious monuments in the world, from the Dome of the Rock to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Western Wall of the Temple. This work takes you on a tour through the history of this image-filled and ideology-laden city--from the bedrock of the Old City to the towering roofs of the Holy Sepulchre.
Contents:
The center of the Christian world -- The center of Jewish Jerusalem -- The center of Muslim Jerusalem -- The old city -- The oldest city -- The Victorian city -- The modern city.
Language:
English
