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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139094103321

Autore

Balfour Alan (Alan H.)

Titolo

Solomon's temple : myth, conflict, and faith / / Alan Balfour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-54598-5

9786613858436

1-118-27513-6

1-118-27510-1

1-118-27512-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 pages)

Disciplina

296.4/91

Soggetti

Temple Mount (Jerusalem) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Solomon's Temple; Contents; List of Figures; Prologue; Chapter 1 Solomon's Temple; The Ark of the Covenant; King David; The Temple of Solomon; Nebuchadnezzar II; Chapter 2 Herod; The Maccabeans; Pompey; Herod; Herod Demolishes the Second Temple; The Third Temple; The Royal Portico; Chapter 3 ""Not... one stone upon another""; Moneychangers; Paul; The Temple Destroyed; Chapter 4 The Holy Sepulcher; Hadrian and Aelia Capitolina; Constantine; The Plague; The Fall of Rome; Hagia Sophia; Madaba; The Persian War; Chapter 5 Dome of the Rock; Muhammad and the Fall of Jerusalem; Umar in Jerusalem

The Dome of the RockThe Rock; Chapter 6 Templum Domini; The Jews Return; The First Crusade; Crusader Jerusalem; Templum Domini; The Templars in the Palace of Solomon; Saladin; Chapter 7 Recreating the Temple; In the Imagination of Priests; The Temple in the Popular Imagination; Return to Mount Moriah; Chapter 8 Jerusalem; Views; Maps; British Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem; The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF); Jerusalem and World War I; Chapter 9 Al-Haram Al-Sharif; The Path to Conflict; Jerusalem Under Transjordan; An Naksah, The Six Day War; Liberation of Temple Mount

Archeology and the Western WallThe Burning of Al-Aqsa Mosque; Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount; The Rabbi's Tunnel; Continual



Provocation; Rabbi's Tunnel Revisited; Camp David Summit; The Second Intifada; Epilogue; Acknowledgments, Sources, and Methods; Sources and methods; Index; Supplementary Images

Sommario/riassunto

"A highly original architectural history of Solomon's Temple and Islam's Dome of the Rock that doubles as a social and cultural history of the region"--