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Solomon's temple : myth, conflict, and faith /

"A highly original architectural history of Solomon's Temple and Islam's Dome of the Rock that doubles as a social and cultural history of the region"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Balfour, Alan (Alan H.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine derived contents note: List of Figures ix
  • List of Plates xii
  • Prologue 1
  • 1 Solomon's Temple 6
  • The Ark of the Covenant 8
  • King David 19
  • The Temple of Solomon 21
  • Nebuchadnezzar II 28
  • 2 Herod 37
  • The Maccabeans 41
  • Pompey 43
  • Herod 45
  • Herod Demolishes the Second Temple 48
  • The Third Temple 51
  • The Royal Portico 57
  • 3 ''Not one stone upon another'' 65
  • Moneychangers 68
  • Paul 72
  • The Temple Destroyed 74
  • 4 The Holy Sepulcher 88
  • Hadrian and Aelia Capitolina 88
  • Constantine 93
  • The Plague 103
  • The Fall of Rome 105
  • Hagia Sophia 107
  • Madaba 110
  • vi Contents
  • The Persian War 111
  • 5 Dome of the Rock 117
  • Muhammad and the Fall of Jerusalem 122
  • Umar in Jerusalem 123
  • The Dome of the Rock 129
  • The Rock 137
  • 6 Templum Domini 146
  • The Jews Return 149
  • The First Crusade 154
  • Crusader Jerusalem 158
  • Templum Domini 160
  • The Templars in the Palace of Solomon 163
  • Saladin 167
  • 7 Recreating the Temple 175
  • In the Imagination of Priests 178
  • The Temple in the Popular Imagination 199
  • Return to Mount Moriah 205
  • 8 Jerusalem 217
  • Views 217
  • Maps 225
  • British Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem 234
  • The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) 240
  • Jerusalem and World War I 247
  • 9 Al-Haram Al-Sharif 254
  • The Path to Conflict 254
  • Jerusalem Under Transjordan 257
  • An Naksah, The Six Day War 259
  • Liberation of Temple Mount 260
  • Archeology and the Western Wall 263
  • The Burning of Al-Aqsa Mosque 264
  • Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount 266
  • The Rabbi's Tunnel 269
  • Continual Provocation 271
  • Rabbi's Tunnel Revisited 275
  • Camp David Summit 276
  • The Second Intifada 277
  • Contents vii
  • Epilogue 282
  • Acknowledgments, Sources, and Methods 290
  • Index 295.