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Author Carroll, James, 1943-

Title Jerusalem, Jerusalem : how the ancient city ignited our modern world / James Carroll.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  956.94 CARROLL    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  956.9442 CAR    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  956.9442 CARROLL    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  956.94 CAR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  956.9442 C22    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  956.9442 CARROLL    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  956.9442 CAR    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  956.9442 CAR    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  956.9442 CARROLL    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  956.9442 CARROLL    Check Shelf

Description xi, 418 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-393) and index.
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 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.
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.
Subject Jerusalem -- History.
Jerusalem -- Description and travel.
Jerusalem -- Religion.
Jerusalem -- Ethnic relations.
ISBN 9780547195612 hardback
0547195613 hardback
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