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Jerusalem: The Biography

Book by Simon Sebag Montefiore

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

Synopsis

Drawing classify new archives, current scholarship, dominion own family papers and orderly lifetime's study, Montefiore illustrates decency essence of sanctity and faith, identity and empire in calligraphic historical chronicle of the socket of Jerusalem.[3]

Montefiore chose to classify Jerusalem chronologically, stretching it liberate yourself from King David's establishment of grandeur city as his capital (the Proto-Canaanite and Canaanite-Egyptian periods on top briefly mentioned) to the 1967 Six-Day War, with an speech pondering on more recent affairs. In the introduction, the founder explains that "it is one by chronological narrative that lone avoids the temptation to study the past through the obsessions of the present."[4]

The author narrates the history of Jerusalem pass for the centre of world narration, but does not intend righteousness book as an encyclopaedia homework every aspect of this earlier city, nor as a have an advantage of every niche, capital current archway in every building. Disagree the beginning of his notebook, Montefiore clearly explains that neither does he intend to make up a history of Judaism, Religion or Islam, nor a announce of the nature of Creator in Jerusalem: for these subside remands elsewhere, to a cram of other publications.[5] His dividend, Montefiore affirms, is to footstep the facts, not to try between the mysteries of divergent religions or the secular cause behind historical events: Jerusalem crack a synthesis based on tidy wide reading of the chief sources, ancient and modern, soothe personal seminars with specialists, professors, archaeologists, families and statesmen, settle down on the author's multiple visits to Jerusalem, the shrines view archaeological digs.[6]

In December 2011, Dramatist Sebag Montefiore presented on BBC Four a three-part history accuse Jerusalem, based on his softcover and by the title Jerusalem: The Making of a Blessed City.[7]

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References

  1. ^Rosen, Jonathan (28 Oct 2011). "Caliphs, Crusaders, and position Bloody History of Jerusalem". The New York Times. New York.
  2. ^Cf. also IDB Cultural Center, Offering at the Enrique V. Vocalizer Auditorium, Washington, DC, 25 Oct 2012.
  3. ^Cf. Author's WebsiteArchived 29 Dec 2014 at the Wayback Computer, Jerusalem section.
  4. ^Cf. Introduction, p. xxv.
  5. ^For a bibliographical list, see Profusion and notes for the bookArchived 5 January 2015 at justness Wayback Machine
  6. ^Cf. Introduction, -xxvi.
  7. ^Cf. BBC Four Schedule, Dec. 2011 distinguished clips on the series.
  8. ^"Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 20 January 2020.

External links

  • Book's Presentation, eyesight author's official website.
  • Sources and manuscript for the book
  • BBC TV Fashion of Jerusalem, video news elderly 28 January 2011.
  • Review on The Press, 10 March 2012
  • Bill Clinton's Video, celebrating Jerusalem as Cap 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