04162nam 2200685Ia 450 991045538770332120200520144314.00-674-03772-310.4159/9780674037724(CKB)1000000000787073(StDuBDS)AH23050706(SSID)ssj0000185454(PQKBManifestationID)12057654(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000185454(PQKBWorkID)10207248(PQKB)11568272(MiAaPQ)EBC3562387(Au-PeEL)EBL3562387(CaPaEBR)ebr10309082(OCoLC)712627644(DE-B1597)583415(DE-B1597)9780674037724(EXLCZ)99100000000078707320071207d2008 uy 0engurc|u||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierJerusalem[electronic resource] city of longing /Simon GoldhillCambridge, MA Belknap Press of Harvard University Press20081 online resource (368 pages )illustrations, mapsOriginally published: 2008.0-674-02866-X 0-674-03468-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-340) and index.Preface -- 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 Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index.Goldhill takes on the archaeology of human imagination, hope, and disaster to provide a tour through the history of this image filled, ideology laden city. Along the way we discover the forgotten stories and the lesser known aspects of politics that continue to make Jerusalem one of the most embattled cities in the world.Jerusalem is the site of some of the most 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. Since the nineteenth century, the city has been a premier tourist destination, not least because of the countless religious pilgrims from the three Abrahamic faiths. But Jerusalem is more than a tourist site-it is a city where every square mile is layered with historical significance, religious intensity, and extraordinary stories. It is a city rebuilt by each ruling Empire in its own way: the Jews, the Romans, the Christians, the Muslims, and for the past sixty years, the modern Israelis. What makes Jerusalem so unique is the heady mix, in one place, of centuries of passion and scandal, kingdom-threatening wars and petty squabbles, architectural magnificence and bizarre relics, spiritual longing and political cruelty. It is a history marked by three great forces: religion, war, and monumentality. In this book, Simon Goldhill takes on this peculiar archaeology of human imagination, hope, and disaster to provide a tour through the history of this most image-filled and ideology-laden city-from the bedrock of the Old City to the towering roofs of the Holy Sepulchre. Along the way, we discover through layers of buried and exposed memories-the long history, the forgotten stories, and the lesser-known aspects of contemporary politics that continue to make Jerusalem one of the most embattled cities in the world.Christian shrinesJerusalemJewish shrinesJerusalemIslamic shrinesJerusalemArchitectureJerusalemJerusalemDescription and travelJerusalemBuildings, structures, etcJerusalemEthnic relationsJerusalemReligionElectronic books.Christian shrinesJewish shrinesIslamic shrinesArchitecture956.9442Goldhill Simon169638MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455387703321Jerusalem2473063UNINA