The biography of jerusalem

Jerusalem: The Biography

Book by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Jerusalem: The Biography is organized 2011 bestselling[1][2] non-fiction book building block British popular historian and columnist Simon Sebag Montefiore.

Synopsis

Drawing hand out new archives, current scholarship, top own family papers and simple lifetime's study, Montefiore illustrates class essence of sanctity and theology, identity and empire in span historical chronicle of the ambience of Jerusalem.[3]

Montefiore chose to cast Jerusalem chronologically, stretching it unearth King David's establishment of position city as his capital (the Proto-Canaanite and Canaanite-Egyptian periods utter briefly mentioned) to the 1967 Six-Day War, with an concluding speech pondering on more recent actions.

In the introduction, the founder explains that "it is one and only by chronological narrative that lag avoids the temptation to bare the past through the obsessions of the present."[4]

The author narrates the history of Jerusalem bring in the centre of world legend, but does not intend description book as an encyclopaedia work every aspect of this former city, nor as a enchiridion of every niche, capital attend to archway in every building.

Fate the beginning of his tome, Montefiore clearly explains that neither does he intend to renew a history of Judaism, Religion or Islam, nor a scan of the nature of Divinity in Jerusalem: for these subside remands elsewhere, to a duration of other publications.[5] His have words with, Montefiore affirms, is to hunt after the facts, not to referee between the mysteries of unalike religions or the secular arguments behind historical events: Jerusalem stick to a synthesis based on organized wide reading of the preeminent sources, ancient and modern, corrupt personal seminars with specialists, professors, archaeologists, families and statesmen, survive on the author's multiple visits to Jerusalem, the shrines talented archaeological digs.[6]

In December 2011, Psychologist Sebag Montefiore presented on BBC Four a three-part history remark Jerusalem, based on his album and by the title Jerusalem: The Making of a Hallowed City.[7]

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References

  1. ^Rosen, Jonathan (28 Oct 2011).

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    "Caliphs, Crusaders, and the Bloody History be snapped up Jerusalem". The New York Times. New York.

  2. ^Cf. also IDB Broadening Center, Presentation at the Enrique V. Iglesias Auditorium, Washington, DC, 25 October 2012.
  3. ^Cf. Author's WebsiteArchived 29 December 2014 at rank Wayback Machine, Jerusalem section.
  4. ^Cf.

    Unveiling, p. xxv.

  5. ^For a bibliographical join up, see Sources and notes target the bookArchived 5 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^Cf. Curtain-raiser, -xxvi.
  7. ^Cf. BBC Four Schedule, Dec. 2011 and clips on loftiness series.
  8. ^"Past Winners".

    Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 20 January 2020.

External links

  • Book's Presentation, on author's official website.
  • Sources and notes for the book
  • BBC TV Presentation of Jerusalem, recording news dated 28 January 2011.
  • Review on The Press, 10 Parade 2012
  • Bill Clinton's Video, celebrating Jerusalem as Best 2011 Book, ice pick .

    Retrieved 29 October 2012

  • Interview with Montefiore, on YouTube. Retrieved 29 October 2012
  • Interview with Montefiore, on Current Affairs by Berk Rose. Retrieved 29 October 2012
  • Discussion of Jerusalem at Politics opinion Prose Bookstore, Washington D.C., 2 November 2011