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The battles of Armageddon : Megiddo and the Jezreel valley from the bronze age to the nuclear age

Title: The battles of Armageddon : Megiddo and the Jezreel valley from the bronze age to the nuclear age / Eric H. Cline.
Author: Cline, Eric H.
Publication: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2000.

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Description

xii, 239 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Apocalypse. Judgment Day. The End Time. Armageddon. Students of the Bible know it as the place where the cataclysmic battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil will unfold. Many believe that this battle will take place in the very near future. But few know that Armageddon is a real place - one that has seen more fighting and bloodshed than any other spot on earth."
"The name Armageddon is a corruption of the Hebrew phrase Har Megiddo, and it means "Mount of Megiddo." More than thirty bloody conflicts have been fought at the ancient site of Megiddo and adjacent areas of the Jezreel Valley during the past four thousand years: Egyptians, Israelites, Greeks, Muslims, Crusaders, Mongols, British, Germans, Arabs, and Israelis have all fought and died here. The names of the warring leaders reverberate throughout history: Thutmose III, Deborah, Gideon, Saul and Jonathan, Jezebel, Saladin, Napoleon, and Allenby, to name but the most famous. Throughout history Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley have been ground zero for battles that determined the very course of civilization.
No wonder that the author of Revelation believed Armageddon, the penultimate battle between good and evil, would also take place here!" "The Battles of Armageddon introduces readers to a cast of ancient and modern warriors, while bringing together for the first time the wide range of conflicts that have been fought at Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age."--Jacket.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Military history.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Battles of Armageddon -- History repeats itself ; Thutmose III and the Canaanites, 1479 B.C. ; Allenby and the Ottomans, A.D. 1918 -- On the outskirts of Egypt ; Pepi I and the Nose of the Gazelle's Head, 2350 B.C. ; Amenhotep II and the Jezreel Valley, 1430 B.C. ; Biridiya and Labayu, 1360-1350 B.C. -- Conquest of Canaan ; Deborah, Barak, and Sisera, 1125 B.C. ; Gideon, the Midianites, and the Amalekites, 1090 B.C. ; Saul, Jonathan, and the Philistines, 1016 B.C. -- Kingdoms under siege ; Shoshenq I (Shishak) in the Jezreel Valley, 925 B.C. ; Jehu, Joram, and Ahaziah, 841 B.C. ; Necho II and Josiah, 609 B.C. -- On the edge of empires ; Antiochus III and Ptolemy IV, 218 B.C. ; Gabinius and Alexander, son of Aristobulus II, 55 B.C. ; Vespasian and the Jewish rebels, A.D. 67 -- Islamic invaders ; Ikhshidids and Abbasids, A.D. 940 -- Ikhshidids and Hamdanids, A.D. 946 ; Fatimids and Byzantium, A.D. 975 -- Coming of the crusaders ; Maudud and the crusaders, A.D. 1113 ; Saladin and the crusaders, A.D. 1182-83, 1187 ; Fifth crusade, A.D. 1217 ; Ayyubids and crusaders, A.D. 1247 -- Dreams of glory ; Mamlukes and Mongols, A.D. 1260 ; Mamlukes and crusaders, A.D. 1263-64 ; Zahir al-'Umar and the Nablus-Saqr Alliance, A.D. 1735-73 ; Napoleon at Mount Tabor, A.D. 1799 -- Struggle for survival ; War of Independence, A.D. 1948 ; Six-day war, A.D. 1967 ; Yom Kippur War, A.D. 1973 -- Battle between good and evil ; Meggiddo and the Jezreel Valley at Armageddon.

ISBN

0472097393
9780472097395
0472067397
9780472067398

LCCN

00008539

OCLC

ocm43631853
43631853
SCSB-1212539

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library