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Jerusalem, Jerusalem : how the ancient city ignited our modern world

text Jerusalem, Jerusalem : how the ancient city ignited our modern world

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.

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 ... Read more
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Description
xi, 418 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 956.94 CAR in Adult Non-fiction Available

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