Jerusalem besieged : from ancient Canaan to modern Israel / Eric H. Cline.
Jerusalem besieged : from ancient Canaan to modern Israel / Eric H. Cline.
Jerusalem besieged : from ancient Canaan to modern Israel / Eric H. Cline.
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Ann Arbor, Mich. ; [Great Britain] : University of Michigan Press, c2004.
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N956.9442/14
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English
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xviii, 410 p. : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : a lonely ship on a hostile sea : Jerusalem under siege -- Ch. 1. A rock and a high place : David and the Jebusites, 1000 BCE -- Ch. 2. The end of the beginning : Nebuchadnezzar and the neo-Babylonians, 586 BCE -- Ch. 3. Oil upon troubled waters : the Maccabean rebellion, 165 BCE -- Ch...
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Ann Arbor, Mich. ; [Great Britain] : University of Michigan Press, c2004.
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Michigan
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c2004.
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"Jerusalem Besieged offers a history across the millennia, yet focuses on a single location - a view of centuries of often violent battles for one city." "Author Eric Cline tells the story of four thousand years of struggles for control of Jerusalem, a city central to three major religions and held sacred by millions of people throughout the world....
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Jerusalem besieged : from ancient Canaan to modern Israel / Eric H. Cline.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2004.
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N956.9442/14
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0472113135 (cloth : alk. paper)
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0472113135 (cased) :
9780472113132 (cloth : alk. paper)
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956.9442
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