Jerusalem: The BiographyKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 18 בספט׳ 2012 - 784 עמודים The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, from the bestselling author of The Romanovs • "Impossible to put down…. Vastly enjoyable." —The New York Times Book Review 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 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. In this masterful narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore brings the holy city to life and draws on the latest scholarship, his own family history, and a lifetime of study to show that the story of Jerusalem is truly the story of the world. |
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Prologue | 3 |
JUDAISM | 14 |
The World of David 17 | 15 |
a small kingdom would become the worlds cynosure Ironically it | 18 |
The Rise of David | 23 |
The Kingdom and the Temple | 26 |
The Kings of Judah | 35 |
The Whore of Babylon | 45 |
Slave to Sultan 287 | 285 |
Decline of the Mamluks | 295 |
OTTOMAN | 301 |
The Magnificence of Suleiman | 303 |
Mystics and Messiahs | 306 |
The Families | 320 |
EMPIRE | 326 |
Napoleon in the Holy Land | 329 |
The Persians | 52 |
The Macedonians | 58 |
The Maccabees | 70 |
The Romans Arrive | 76 |
The Herods | 83 |
Jesus Christ | 100 |
The Last of the Herods | 116 |
The Death of Jerusalem | 128 |
PAGANISM | 133 |
Aelia Capitolina | 135 |
CHRISTIANITY | 148 |
The Apogee of Byzantium | 151 |
Persian Invasion | 166 |
ISLAM | 175 |
The Arab Conquest 177 | 176 |
The Temple Restored | 187 |
Distant Masters | 197 |
Tolerance and Lunacy | 202 |
CRUSADE | 214 |
The Slaughter 217 | 215 |
The Rise of Outremer | 226 |
The Golden Age of Outremer | 231 |
Stalemate | 243 |
The LeperKing | 252 |
Saladin | 258 |
Saladin and Richard | 268 |
The Saladin Dynasty | 274 |
MAMLUK | 284 |
Chateaubriand and Disraeli | 334 |
The Albanian Conquest | 342 |
The Evangelists | 347 |
The New City | 366 |
The New Religion | 370 |
Arab City Imperial City | 376 |
Russians | 384 |
ZIONISM | 388 |
The Kaiser | 391 |
The OudPlayer of Jerusalem | 400 |
World War | 412 |
Arab Revolt Balfour Declaration | 420 |
The Christmas Present | 435 |
The Victors and the Spoils | 447 |
The British Mandate | 455 |
The Arab Revolt | 468 |
The Dirty War | 481 |
Jewish Independence Arab Catastrophe | 496 |
Divided | 504 |
Six Days | 511 |
Family Trees | 545 |
Maps | 553 |
Acknowledgements | 565 |
Notes | 569 |
Bibliography | 609 |
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