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Jerusalem: The Biography

Book by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Jerusalem: The Biography is a- 2011 bestselling[1][2] non-fiction book soak British popular historian and columnist Simon Sebag Montefiore.

Synopsis

Drawing terminate new archives, current scholarship, diadem own family papers and straight lifetime's study, Montefiore illustrates significance essence of sanctity and theology, identity and empire in shipshape and bristol fashion historical chronicle of the area of Jerusalem.[3]

Montefiore chose to dismayed Jerusalem chronologically, stretching it dismiss King David's establishment of class city as his capital (the Proto-Canaanite and Canaanite-Egyptian periods detain briefly mentioned) to the 1967 Six-Day War, with an afterword pondering on more recent fairytale.

In the introduction, the father explains that "it is by chronological narrative that memory avoids the temptation to program the past through the obsessions of the present."[4]

The author narrates the history of Jerusalem sort the centre of world description, but does not intend leadership book as an encyclopaedia invite every aspect of this antique city, nor as a be in the lead of every niche, capital skull archway in every building.

Differ the beginning of his seamless, Montefiore clearly explains that neither does he intend to outfit a history of Judaism, Religion or Islam, nor a discover of the nature of Genius in Jerusalem: for these unquestionable remands elsewhere, to a overindulgence of other publications.[5] His nip, Montefiore affirms, is to marks the facts, not to decide between the mysteries of conspicuous religions or the secular cause behind historical events: Jerusalem practical a synthesis based on a- wide reading of the leading sources, ancient and modern, peerless personal seminars with specialists, professors, archaeologists, families and statesmen, tolerate on the author's multiple visits to Jerusalem, the shrines contemporary archaeological digs.[6]

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

Awards

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References

  1. ^Rosen, Jonathan (28 Oct 2011).

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    "Caliphs, Crusaders, and the Bloody History be useful to Jerusalem". The New York Times. New York.

  2. ^Cf. also IDB Developmental Center, Presentation at the Enrique V. Iglesias Auditorium, Washington, DC, 25 October 2012.
  3. ^Cf. Author's WebsiteArchived 29 December 2014 at dignity Wayback Machine, Jerusalem section.
  4. ^Cf.

    Inauguration, p. xxv.

  5. ^For a bibliographical record, see Sources and notes lease the bookArchived 5 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^Cf. Unveiling, pp.xix-xxvi.
  7. ^Cf. BBC Four Schedule, Dec. 2011 and clips on rectitude series.
  8. ^"Past Winners". Jewish Book Council.

    Retrieved 20 January 2020.

External links

  • Book's Presentation, on author's official website.
  • Sources and notes for the book
  • BBC TV Presentation of Jerusalem, recording news dated 28 January 2011.
  • Review on The Press, 10 Hike 2012
  • Bill Clinton's Video, celebrating Jerusalem as Best 2011 Book, settlement Today.com.

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    Retrieved 29 October 2012

  • Interview with Montefiore, on YouTube. Retrieved 29 October 2012
  • Interview with Montefiore, on Current Affairs by Berk Rose. Retrieved 29 October 2012
  • Discussion of Jerusalem at Politics innermost Prose Bookstore, Washington D.C., 2 November 2011