Four paths to Jerusalem : Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and secular pilgrimages, 1000 BCE to 2001 CE /
Jerusalem has long been one of the most sought-after destinations for the followers of three world faiths and for secularists alike. For Jews, it has the Western (Wailing) Wall; for Christians, it is where Christ suffered and triumphed; for Muslims, it offers the Dome of the Rock; and for secularist...
| מחבר ראשי: | |
|---|---|
| פורמט: | Licensed eBooks |
| שפה: | אנגלית |
| יצא לאור: |
Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Co.,
2006.
|
| גישה מקוונת: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1052188 |
תוכן הענינים:
- Ghostly and other pilgrims
- A primer on the importance of Jerusalem
- The Old City
- Beginnings of the Jerusalem pilgrimage : the first and second temples (c. 1000 BCE-63 BCE)
- Pilgrims under Roman and Byzantine rule (63 BCE-638 CE)
- The early Islamic period : Christian and Muslim pilgrimages (638-1095)
- A pilgrimage in arms : the first crusade and its aftermath (1095-1187)
- More crusades and more pilgrims : the Ayyubid and Mamluk dynasties (1187-1517)
- Pilgrimages under Ottoman rule (1517-1917)
- Pilgrimages during the British mandate and under the Israelis (1917-2001)
- A summing-up : unity in diversity and the symbolism of the journey
- Appendix I: Selective list of pilgrim or other accounts cited in this book
- Appendix II: The destruction of the Herodian temple : an account by Flavius Josephus, 70 CE
- Appendix III: The travels of St. Willibald, 720-726
- Appendix IV: List of the presents brought home from Jerusalem by Nompar de Caumont, 1420
- Appendix V: Instructions for Christian pilgrims, c. 1484
- Appendix VI: Balfour and the Zionists, 1917
- Appendix VII: Reports by Albright fellows, 1990-2000.