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City of the great king : Jerusalem from David to the present / edited by Nitza Rosovsky.

Contributor(s): Rosovsky, Nitza
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996Description: xiii, 562 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0674131908 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Jerusalem -- History | Jerusalem -- Description and travel | Jerusalem -- In Judaism | Jerusalem -- In Christianity | Jerusalem -- In IslamDDC classification: 956.94/42 LOC classification: DS109.9 | .C58 1996Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-462).
Contents:
The inhabitants of Jerusalem / Magen Broshi -- The holy places / F.E. Peters -- Jerusalem in Jewish spirituality / Joseph Dan -- The Holy City in Christian thought / Paula Fredriksen -- The spiritual meaning of Jerusalem in Islam / Angelika Neuwirth -- Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land / Robert L. Wilken -- Jewish pilgrimage after the destruction of the second Temple / Mark Friedman -- Jerusalem and Zionism / Arthur Hertzberg -- Palestinian images of Jerusalem / Muhammad Muslih --Jerusalem in medieval Islamic literature / Jonathan M. Bloom --Nineteenth-century portraits through Western eyes / Nitza Rosovsky --Depictions in modern Hebrew literature / Dan Miron -- Geography and geometry of Jerusalem / Bianca Kühnel -- Jerusalem elsewhere / Oleg Grabar -- The city in Jewish folk art / Nitza Rosovsky -- The image of the Holy City in maps and mapping / Milka Levy-Rubin and Rehav Rubin -- Two Islamic construction plans for al-Haram al-Sharif / Sabri Jarrar --Architecture of the city outside the walls / Ziva Sternhell.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-462).

The inhabitants of Jerusalem / Magen Broshi -- The holy places / F.E. Peters -- Jerusalem in Jewish spirituality / Joseph Dan -- The Holy City in Christian thought / Paula Fredriksen -- The spiritual meaning of Jerusalem in Islam / Angelika Neuwirth -- Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land / Robert L. Wilken -- Jewish pilgrimage after the destruction of the second Temple / Mark Friedman -- Jerusalem and Zionism / Arthur Hertzberg -- Palestinian images of Jerusalem / Muhammad Muslih --Jerusalem in medieval Islamic literature / Jonathan M. Bloom --Nineteenth-century portraits through Western eyes / Nitza Rosovsky --Depictions in modern Hebrew literature / Dan Miron -- Geography and geometry of Jerusalem / Bianca Kühnel -- Jerusalem elsewhere / Oleg Grabar -- The city in Jewish folk art / Nitza Rosovsky -- The image of the Holy City in maps and mapping / Milka Levy-Rubin and Rehav Rubin -- Two Islamic construction plans for al-Haram al-Sharif / Sabri Jarrar --Architecture of the city outside the walls / Ziva Sternhell.

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