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Jerusalem besieged : from ancient Canaan to modern Israel
- Title
- Jerusalem besieged : from ancient Canaan to modern Israel / Eric H. Cline.
- Author
- Cline, Eric H.
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004.
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- Description
- xviii, 410 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-395) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: a lonely ship on a hostile sea: Jerusalem under siege -- A rock and a high place: David and the Jebusites, 1000 BCE -- The end of the beginning: Nebuchadnezzar and the Neo-Babylonians, 586 BCE -- Oil upon troubled waters: the Maccabean rebellion, 165 BCE -- In blood and fire: the first and second Jewish Revolts, 70 and 135 CE -- The "holy house": the arrival of Islam, 638 CE -- For God, gold, and glory: the Crusaders and Saladin, 1099 and 1187 CE -- The sultan and the city: Selim I and the Ottomans, 1516 CE -- Peace to their ashes, honor to their memory: Allenby and the Allied forces, 1917 CE -- Jerusalem of gold: the Arab-Israeli wars, 1948 and 1967 CE -- Speak tenderly to Jerusalem: the Intifadas and beyond.
- Call Number
- *PXLL (Jerusalem) 04-3976
- ISBN
- 0472113135 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004007661
- OCLC
- 54913803
- Author
- Cline, Eric H.
- Title
- Jerusalem besieged : from ancient Canaan to modern Israel / Eric H. Cline.
- Imprint
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-395) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- *PXLL (Jerusalem) 04-3976