The Temple of Jerusalem /

The Temple of Jerusalem / / Simon Goldhill.

It was destroyed nearly 2000 years ago, and yet the Temple of Jerusalem--cultural memory, symbol, and site--remains one of the most powerful, and most contested, buildings in the world. This glorious structure, imagined and re-imagined, reconsidered and reinterpreted again and again over two millenn...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Goldhill, Simon,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]
©2005
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Wonders of the world : 20
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • 1 A MONUMENT OF THE IMAGINATION
  • 2 SOLOMON’S TEMPLE: THE GLORY AND THE DESTRUCTION
  • 3 REBUILDING THE TEMPLE: A VISION FROM EXILE
  • 4 HEROD’S TEMPLE: A WONDER OF THE WORLD
  • 5 THE TEMPLE OF THE SCHOLARS: A BUILDING OF WORDS
  • 6 YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE
  • 7 CALIPHS AND CRUSADERS
  • 8 THE ARTIST’S EYE
  • 9 TRAVELLERS’ TALES
  • 10 ARCHAEOLOGY AND IMPERIALISM
  • 11 THE TEMPLE AS MYTH: FREEMASONS AND THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
  • 12 THE TEMPLE IS OURS!
  • MAKING A VISIT ?
  • FURTHER READING
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • DATING SCHEMES AND TRANSLATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INDEX

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