Jerusalem besieged : from ancient Canaan to modern Israel / Eric H. Cline.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cline, Eric H.
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2004], ©2004.
Subjects:
Jerusalem > History, Military.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:xviii, 410 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: a lonely ship on a hostile sea: Jerusalem under siege
  • A rock and a high place: David and the Jebusites, 1000 BCE
  • The 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
  • The "holy house": the arrival of Islam, 638 CE
  • For God, gold, and glory: the Crusaders and Saladin, 1099 and 1187 CE
  • The 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.