Jerusalem, Jerusalem : how the ancient city ignited our modern world / James Carroll.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem : how the ancient city ignited our modern world / James Carroll.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem : how the ancient city ignited our modern world / James Carroll.
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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Date
2011.
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N956.9442/22
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English
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Physical content
xi, 418 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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 empt...
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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2011.
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Summary
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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Jerusalem, Jerusalem : how the ancient city ignited our modern world / James Carroll.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-393) and index.
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N956.9442/22
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74VvdNaXVXRZ
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0547195613 (hbk.)
9780547195612 (hbk.) :
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956.9442
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991005961419702626
