|
Jerusalem, Shining Still
|
Karla Kuskin |
Evokes the spirit of an ancient city, recalling David, Nebuchadnezzer, Herod, Hadrian, Constantine, Saladin, Sulieman, and the many groups who came to conquer; and observes that despite 3000 years of… |
OL1828857W |
|
Colonial Jerusalem
|
Thomas Philip Abowd |
This anthropological work draws on recent theories about racial politics, colonialism, and urban spatial dynamics to examine social segregation in Jerusalem. The author examines the physical manifest… |
OL20957745W |
|
Jerusalem's Temple Mount
|
Hershel Shanks |
According to the Hebrew Bible, King Solomon built a Temple to the Lord in Jerusalem on a threshing floor that his father, King David, purchased from Araunah the Jebusite for 50 shekels of silver. "No… |
OL2347530W |
|
God's Gold
|
Sean Kingsley |
God's Gold explores the fate of the greatest biblical treasure in history, the central icons of the Jewish faith looted from the Temple of Jerusalem. The Golden candelabrum, silver trumpets, and the … |
OL276617W |
|
O Jerusalem!
|
Dominique Lapierre,Larry Collins |
Day by day and minute by minute, the historic struggle for Jerusalem and the birth of Israel. Here is the classic retelling of the spellbinding events of the birth of Israel. Moment by moment, Collin… |
OL3421642W |
|
Jerusalem 1913
|
Amy Dockser Marcus |
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter examines the true history of the discord between Israel and Palestine with surprising results Though the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict have traditionally been… |
OL76947W |
|
The Christian Communities in Jerusalem (Studies in History, Religion and Politics)
|
Anthony O'Mahony |
210 pages ; 24 cm |
OL8930815W |