Jerusalem, Jerusalem how the ancient city ignited our modern world

Traces the evolution of the belief that Jerusalem is the center of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim religious worlds and argues that this fixation is a main cause of the modern-day Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Main Author: Carroll, James, 1943-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
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245 1 0 |a Jerusalem, Jerusalem :  |b how the ancient city ignited our modern world /  |c James Carroll. 
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300 |a xi, 418 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-393) and index. 
505 0 |a Two Jerusalems. Heat ; Jerusalem today ; Hic ; A personal note -- Deep violence. The clock of the past ; Mark makers ; Enter Jerusalem ; Sacrifice -- The Bible resists. Wartime literature ; Wars that did not happen ; God's ambivalence ; Conceived in Jerusalem, born in exile from Jerusalem ; The empty Temple ; Abraham's kill ; Apocalypse then -- The Cross against itself. Jesus to Jerusalem ; Rome's war and its consequences ; The new Temple ; Scapegoat mechanism ; The violence of Christians ; Apocalypse now -- The Rock of Islam. No god but God ; Al Quds ; The masterpiece relic ; Jerusalem agonistes ; 1099 ; Knights Templar ; Christopher the Christ bearer -- City on a hill. Reformation wars ; Separatists ; The God of peace ; Return to Jerusalem ; Temple roots ; Jerusalem marchers -- Messiah nation. Jerusalem and exile ; The printing press and Ottoman Jerusalem ; The peaceful Crusade -- Restorationism ; Abraham's altar ; God's right arm ; Apostolic succession --Jerusalem builded here. The last Crusader ; Diaspora's end ; Waiting to baptize you ; Grand mufti ; Eichmann in Jerusalem ; Nakba ; Soap ; Twins in trauma -- Millennium. The Temple weapons ; Sacrifice operatives ; Crusade -- Good religion. Neither secular or sacred ; Not God's way, but man's ; Learning from history. 
520 |a Traces the evolution of the belief that Jerusalem is the center of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim religious worlds and argues that this fixation is a main cause of the modern-day Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 
651 0 |a Jerusalem  |x History. 
651 0 |a Jerusalem  |x Description and travel. 
651 0 |a Jerusalem  |x Religion. 
651 0 |a Jerusalem  |x Ethnic relations. 
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