Routledge handbook on Jerusalem /

Routledge handbook on Jerusalem /

Few cities around the world transcend their physical boundaries the way Jerusalem does. As the spiritual capital of monotheism, Jerusalem has ancient roots and legacies that have imposed themselves on its inhabitants throughout the centuries. In modern times, and aside from all the religious complex...

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Other Authors: Murād, Sulaymān ʻAlī (Editor), Koltun-Fromm, Naomi, 1964- (Editor), Der Matossian, Bedross, 1978- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2019.
Series:Routledge handbooks.
Subjects:
Jerusalem > History.
Jerusalem > Civilization.
Table of Contents:
  • Jerusalem from its beginnings to the end of the late bronze age / Eyal Meiron
  • Jerusalem in the first temple period / Kyle H. Keimer
  • From the Babylonian exile through the Hasmonean period / Joshua Schwartz
  • Herodian Jerusalem / Orit Peleg-Barkat
  • Aelia capitolina / Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah
  • Byzantine Jerusalem / Ute Verstegen
  • Jerusalem in early Islam : the making of the Muslims' holy city / Suleiman A. Mourad
  • The crusader period / Adrian J. Boas
  • Jerusalem in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods / Zayde Antrim
  • Ottoman Jerusalem, 1517-1918 / Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Buessow
  • Jerusalem in the transition from empire to mandate / Abigail Jacobson
  • British Jerusalem / Thomas Abowd
  • Nationalizing Jerusalem : the holy city under Jordanian rule / Kimberly Katz
  • Israeli Jerusalem : seven decades since 1948 / Yitzhak Reiter
  • The church of the holy sepulchre / Megan Boomer and Robert G. Ousterhout
  • The dome of the rock / Alain Fouad George
  • Representations of Jerusalem in Jewish art and literature in the late antique, medieval, and modern periods / Shulamit Laderman
  • The western wall or kotel / Dotan Goren
  • Moments of transformation in the urban order of Jerusalem / Wendy Pullan
  • Jerusalem in Palestinian poetry / Atef Alshaer
  • Jerusalem as ritual space / Jeremy D. Smoak
  • Death and burial in iron age Jerusalem : a view from the Silwan necropolis / Matthew J. Suriano
  • Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in Antiquity / Daniel R. Schwartz
  • The heavenly Jerusalem and the earthly Jerusalem / Oliver Larry Yarbrough
  • Christian religious symbolism and pilgrimage / Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos
  • Jerusalem temples to Jerusalem rocks before the coming of Islam / Naomi Koltun-Fromm
  • Jerusalem in maps / Rehav Rubin
  • The holy city and medieval Europe / Giuseppe Perta
  • Acquiring Jerusalem / Annabel Jane Wharton
  • Jerusalem and eschatology / Ora Limor
  • One hundred and fifty years of archaeology and controversy in Jerusalem / Raphael Greenberg
  • Between the nations : the sepulchre in intercommunal and international dynamics / Georgios Tsourous
  • Intercommunal relations during the British mandate / Laura Robson
  • The Armenians of Jerusalem in the modern period : the rise and decline of a community / Bedross der Matossian
  • Jerusalem in the peace process / Menachem Klein.