City of the Great King : : Jerusalem from David to the Present /

City of the Great King : : Jerusalem from David to the Present / / ed. by Nitza Rosovsky.

With majestic sweep and sparkling detail, this magnificent volume brings to life the great and ancient drama of the world's holiest city on the eve of a new millennium. Some three thousand years ago King David captured Jerusalem from the Jebusites and made the city his capital. There Solomon bu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Bloom, Jonathan M.,
Dan, Joseph,
Fredriksen, Paula,
Friedman, Mark,
Grabar, Oleg,
Hertzberg, Arthur,
Jarrar, Sabri,
Kühnel, Bianca,
Levy-Rubin, Milka,
Miron, Dan,
Muslih, Muhammad,
Neuwirth, Angelika,
Peters, F. E.,
Rosovsky, Nitza,
Rubin, Rehav,
Sternhell, Ziva,
Wilken, Robert L.,
HerausgeberIn:
Rosovsky, Nitza,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1996
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (562 p.) :; 4 maps, 11 color illustrations, 39 halftones, 32 line illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chronology
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Inhabitants of Jerusalem
  • THE HEAVENLY CITY
  • 2. The Holy Places
  • 3. Jerusalem in Jewish Spirituality
  • 4. The Holy City in Christian Thought
  • 5. The Spiritual Meaning of Jerusalem in Islam
  • 6. Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
  • 7. Jewish Pilgrimage after the Destruction of the Second Temple
  • THE EARTHLY CITY
  • 8. Jerusalem and Zionism
  • 9. Palestinian Images of Jerusalem
  • THE CITY IN LITERATURE, ART, AND ARCHITECTURE
  • 10. Jerusalem in Medieval Islamic Literature
  • 11. Nineteenth-Century Portraits through Western Eyes
  • 12. Depictions in Modern Hebrew Literature
  • 13. Geography and Geometry of Jerusalem
  • 14. Jerusalem Elsewhere
  • 15. The City in Jewish Folk Art
  • 16. The Image of the Holy City in Maps and Mapping
  • 17. Two Islamic Construction Plans for al-Haram al-Sharif
  • 18. Architecture of the City outside the Walls
  • Bibliography
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Illustration Credits
  • Acknowledgments

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