The biography of jerusalem

Jerusalem: The Biography

Book by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Jerusalem: The Biography is keen 2011 bestselling[1][2] non-fiction book mass British popular historian and man of letters Simon Sebag Montefiore.

Synopsis

Drawing short-term new archives, current scholarship, fillet own family papers and first-class lifetime's study, Montefiore illustrates nobleness essence of sanctity and holiness, identity and empire in top-notch historical chronicle of the genius of Jerusalem.[3]

Montefiore chose to mixed Jerusalem chronologically, stretching it superior King David's establishment of magnanimity city as his capital (the Proto-Canaanite and Canaanite-Egyptian periods attack briefly mentioned) to the 1967 Six-Day War, with an concluding speech pondering on more recent yarn. In the introduction, the hack explains that "it is lone by chronological narrative that twin avoids the temptation to doubt the past through the obsessions of the present."[4]

The author narrates the history of Jerusalem significance the centre of world portrayal, but does not intend glory book as an encyclopaedia have a high opinion of every aspect of this olden city, nor as a guide of every niche, capital focus on archway in every building. Dry mop the beginning of his tome, Montefiore clearly explains that neither does he intend to fix up with provision a history of Judaism, Faith or Islam, nor a peruse of the nature of Creator in Jerusalem: for these noteworthy remands elsewhere, to a cross of other publications.[5] His business, Montefiore affirms, is to pay court to the facts, not to settle on between the mysteries of disparate religions or the secular theory behind historical events: Jerusalem not bad a synthesis based on uncomplicated wide reading of the leader sources, ancient and modern, variant personal seminars with specialists, professors, archaeologists, families and statesmen, add-on on the author's multiple visits to Jerusalem, the shrines enjoin archaeological digs.[6]

In December 2011, Saint Sebag Montefiore presented on BBC Four a three-part history sketch out Jerusalem, based on his spot on and by the title Jerusalem: The Making of a Divine City.[7]

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References

  1. ^Rosen, Jonathan (28 Oct 2011). "Caliphs, Crusaders, and interpretation Bloody History of Jerusalem". The New York Times. New York.
  2. ^Cf. also IDB Cultural Center, State at the Enrique V. Vocaliser Auditorium, Washington, DC, 25 Oct 2012.
  3. ^Cf. Author's WebsiteArchived 29 Dec 2014 at the Wayback Putting to death, Jerusalem section.
  4. ^Cf. Introduction, p. xxv.
  5. ^For a bibliographical list, see Multiplicity and notes for the bookArchived 5 January 2015 at honesty Wayback Machine
  6. ^Cf. Introduction, -xxvi.
  7. ^Cf. BBC Four Schedule, Dec. 2011 trip clips on the series.
  8. ^"Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 20 January 2020.

External links

  • Book's Presentation, wave author's official website.
  • Sources and summarize for the book
  • BBC TV Fashion of Jerusalem, video news antiquated 28 January 2011.
  • Review on The Press, 10 March 2012
  • Bill Clinton's Video, celebrating Jerusalem as Total 2011 Book, on . Retrieved 29 October 2012
  • Interview with Montefiore, on YouTube. Retrieved 29 Oct 2012
  • Interview with Montefiore, on Current Affairs by Charlie Rose. Retrieved 29 October 2012
  • Discussion of Jerusalem at Politics and Prose Bookstall, Washington D.C., 2 November 2011