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100 1  Sebag Montefiore, Simon,|d1965- 
245 10 Jerusalem :|bthe biography /|cSimon Sebag Montefiore. 
250    First U.S. edition. 
264  1 New York [N.Y.] :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2011. 
300    xxxiii, 650 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations (some color), genealogical tables, maps ;
       |c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "This is a Borzoi Book" -- T.p. verso. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [569]-627) and 
       index. 
505 0  Judaism. The world of David ; The rise of David ; The 
       Kingdom and the Temple ; The kings of Judah ; The whore of
       Babylon ; The Persians ; The Macedonians ; The Maccabees ;
       The Romans arrive ; The Herods ; Jesus Christ ; The last 
       of the Herods ; Jewish wars : the death of Jerusalem -- 
       Paganism. Aelia Capitolina -- Christianity. The apogee of 
       Byzantium ; Sunset of the Byzantines : Persian invasion --
       Islam. The Arab conquest ; The Umayyads : the Temple 
       restored ; The Abbasids : distant masters ; The Fatimids :
       tolerance and lunacy -- Crusade. The slaughter ; The rise 
       of Outremer ; The golden age of Outremer ; Stalemate ; The
       Leper-King ; Saladin ; The Third Crusade : Saladin and 
       Richard ; The Saladin dynasty -- Mamluk. Slave to sultan ;
       Decline of the Mamluks -- Ottoman. The magnificence of 
       Suleiman ; Mystics and messiahs ; The families -- Empire. 
       Napoleon in the Holy Land ; The new romantics : 
       Chateaubriand and Disraeli ; The Albanian conquest ; The 
       evangelists ; The new city ; The new religion ; Arab city,
       imperial city ; Russians -- Zionism. The Kaiser ; The Oud-
       Player of Jerusalem ; World war ; Arab revolt, Balfour 
       Declaration ; The Christmas present ; The victors and the 
       spoils ; The British Mandate ; The Arab revolt ; The dirty
       war ; Jewish independence, Arab catastrophe ; Divided ; 
       Six days. 
520    Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two 
       peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of 
       empires, the site of Judgment Day and the battlefield of 
       today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack 
       Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam 
       to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history
       of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism 
       and coexistence. How did this small, remote town become 
       the Holy City, the "center of the world" and now the key 
       to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, 
       Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in 
       its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character 
       blazingly to life. Jerusalem's biography is told through 
       the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and 
       women -- kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, 
       conquerors and whores -- who created, destroyed, 
       chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many 
       ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the 
       city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman 
       the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from
       Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of 
       Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern 
       times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Lincoln, 
       Rasputin, Lawrence of Arabia and Moshe Dayan. Drawing on 
       new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers 
       and a lifetime's study, Montefiore illuminates the essence
       of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique
       chronicle of the city that many believe will be the 
       setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became 
       Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice -- in 
       heaven and on earth. - Publisher. 
651  0 Jerusalem|xHistory. 
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