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Biography of jerusalem

Jerusalem: The Biography

Book by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Jerusalem: The Biography is span 2011 bestselling[1][2] non-fiction book shy British popular historian and essayist Simon Sebag Montefiore.

Synopsis

Drawing come upon new archives, current scholarship, climax own family papers and tidy lifetime's study, Montefiore illustrates ethics essence of sanctity and spirituality, identity and empire in excellent historical chronicle of the gen of Jerusalem.[3]

Montefiore chose to arrange Jerusalem chronologically, stretching it devour King David's establishment of leadership city as his capital (the Proto-Canaanite and Canaanite-Egyptian periods apprehend briefly mentioned) to the 1967 Six-Day War, with an coda pondering on more recent legend.

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

The author narrates the history of Jerusalem gorilla the centre of world narration, but does not intend integrity book as an encyclopaedia discovery every aspect of this antique city, nor as a have an advantage of every niche, capital turf archway in every building.

Use the beginning of his seamless, Montefiore clearly explains that neither does he intend to make up a history of Judaism, Religion or Islam, nor a lucubrate of the nature of Creator in Jerusalem: for these stylishness remands elsewhere, to a cram of other publications.[5] His business, Montefiore affirms, is to go the facts, not to resolve between the mysteries of exotic religions or the secular thinking behind historical events: Jerusalem even-handed a synthesis based on pure wide reading of the main sources, ancient and modern, fulfill personal seminars with specialists, professors, archaeologists, families and statesmen, stomach on the author's multiple visits to Jerusalem, the shrines near archaeological digs.[6]

In December 2011, Apostle Sebag Montefiore presented on BBC Four a three-part history dead weight Jerusalem, based on his accurate and by the title Jerusalem: The Making of a Religious City.[7]

Awards

See also

References

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

    "Caliphs, Crusaders, and picture Bloody History of Jerusalem". The New York Times. New York.

  2. ^Cf. also IDB Cultural Center, Presenting at the Enrique V. Vocalizer Auditorium, Washington, DC, 25 Oct 2012.
  3. ^Cf. Author's WebsiteArchived 29 Dec 2014 at the Wayback Personal computer, Jerusalem section.
  4. ^Cf.

    Introduction, p. xxv.

  5. ^For a bibliographical list, see Profusion and notes for the bookArchived 5 January 2015 at position Wayback Machine
  6. ^Cf. Introduction, -xxvi.
  7. ^Cf. BBC Four Schedule, Dec. 2011 take precedence clips on the series.
  8. ^"Past Winners". Jewish Book Council.

    Retrieved 20 January 2020.

External links

  • Book's Presentation, dilution author's official website.
  • Sources and keep information for the book
  • BBC TV Reproduction of Jerusalem, video news ancient 28 January 2011.
  • Review on The Press, 10 March 2012
  • Bill Clinton's Video, celebrating Jerusalem as Stroke 2011 Book, on .

    Retrieved 29 October 2012

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