LEADER 04162nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910455387703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-03772-3 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674037724 035 $a(CKB)1000000000787073 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050706 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000185454 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12057654 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000185454 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10207248 035 $a(PQKB)11568272 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3562387 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3562387 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10309082 035 $a(OCoLC)712627644 035 $a(DE-B1597)583415 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674037724 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000787073 100 $a20071207d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurc|u|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aJerusalem$b[electronic resource] $ecity of longing /$fSimon Goldhill 210 $aCambridge, MA $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (368 pages )$cillustrations, maps 300 $aOriginally published: 2008. 311 $a0-674-02866-X 311 $a0-674-03468-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [335]-340) and index. 327 $aPreface -- 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. 330 $aGoldhill takes on the archaeology of human imagination, hope, and disaster to provide a tour through the history of this image filled, ideology laden city. Along the way we discover the forgotten stories and the lesser known aspects of politics that continue to make Jerusalem one of the most embattled cities in the world.$bJerusalem 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. 606 $aChristian shrines$zJerusalem 606 $aJewish shrines$zJerusalem 606 $aIslamic shrines$zJerusalem 606 $aArchitecture$zJerusalem 607 $aJerusalem$xDescription and travel 607 $aJerusalem$xBuildings, structures, etc 607 $aJerusalem$xEthnic relations 607 $aJerusalem$xReligion 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChristian shrines 615 0$aJewish shrines 615 0$aIslamic shrines 615 0$aArchitecture 676 $a956.9442 700 $aGoldhill$b Simon$0169638 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455387703321 996 $aJerusalem$92473063 997 $aUNINA