Author: Steven Fine
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-01-17
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9004214712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah brings together an interdisciplinary and broad-ranging international community of scholars to discuss aspects of the history and continued life of the Jerusalem Temple in Western culture, from biblical times to the present. This volume is the fruit of the inaugural conference of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, which convened in New York City on May 11-12, 2008 and honors Professor Louis H. Feldman, Abraham Wouk Family Professor of Classics and Literature at Yeshiva University.
Author: Claude Reignier Conder
Publisher:
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Tim Dowley
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2023-11-28
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1666765414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On the famous mappa mundi, housed in Hereford Cathedral, Jerusalem is at the center of the world. For Jews, Christians, and Muslims, this holy city represents not merely a physical focus for their faith, but a theological and spiritual emblem: simultaneously a very earthly city and a uniquely celestial kingdom. How has this insignificant city become such a critical location in geopolitics and psychogeography? I’m Talking about Jerusalem explores the many and varied meanings and resonances of “Jerusalem”—in history, prophecy, theology, literature, imagery, and myth. “Jerusalem” appears 806 times in the Bible. For the Jews, Jerusalem is not simply a significant physical place, past and present, but a religious concept transcending time. For Christians, it is the site of Jesus’s last days—and of countless Christian structures, relics, and remains. Islamic tradition has celebrated the city with seventeen names; it was a key stage in Muhammad’s night journey and became Islam’s third holiest place of pilgrimage. For all three Abrahamic religions, Jerusalem is a major pilgrimage destination. Aldous Huxley wrote, “We have each of us our Jerusalem”—a vision of what life might be. I’m Talking about Jerusalem considers Jerusalem as a political goal and eternal home; its place in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic eschatology; and as a metaphor for all we yearn for in this world and the next. A place of perfection and conclusion, a golden city, a paradise to be attained after death.
Author: Abraham Ezra Millgram
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780827603585
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jerusalem is a holy city for Jews, Christians, and Muslims. It is a city of strange contradictions and astonishing curiosities. This book seeks to help readers grasp Jerusalem’s unique role in the history of mankind, as it charts the “curiosities” of the city—not to be confused with “trivia” about the city—through the centuries, and right up to the late 20th century.
Author: Zev Vilnay
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"These legends encompass all the three great religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Author: Ruth Kark
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780814329092
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It covers the construction of institutional complexes, the introduction of significant changes in Jerusalem's administration, the creation of new planning frameworks, the planning of new settlements around the city, the concentration of large tracts of agricultural land by Jerusalem's Arab effendis, and the development of the Arab and Jewish villages in the rural hinterland."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Antti Laato
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-08-05
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9004406859
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Understanding the Spiritual Meaning of Jerusalem in Three Abrahamic Religions analyses spiritual images and theological constructions related to Jerusalem in Christian, Islamic and Jewish literature, including the Bible, Qur’an, and Second Temple Jewish writings.