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• ISBN: 9780472113132
• ISBN: 0472113135
• ISBN: 9780472031207
• ISBN: 0472031201
• Physical Description: xviii, 410 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
• Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2004]
• Copyright: ©2004

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-395) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: a lonely ship on a hostile sea: Jerusalem under siege -- A rock and a high place: David and the Jebusites, 1000 BCE -- End of the beginning: Nebuchadnezzar and the Neo-Babylonians, 586 BCE -- Oil upon troubled waters: the Maccabean rebellion, 165 BCE -- In blood and fire: the first and second Jewish Revolts, 70 and 135 CE -- "Holy house": the arrival of Islam, 638 CE -- For God, gold, and glory: the Crusaders and Saladin, 1099 and 1187 CE -- Sultan and the city: Selim I and the Ottomans, 1516 CE -- Peace to their ashes, honor to their memory: Allenby and the Allied forces, 1917 CE -- Jerusalem of gold: the Arab-Israeli wars, 1948 and 1967 CE -- Speak tenderly to Jerusalem: the Intifadas and beyond.

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Subject:

Jerusalem > History, Military.