UID:
kobvindex_INTEBC918168
Umfang:
1 online resource (346 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118275122
Inhalt:
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 The most extensive study of the interrelated history of two monuments, Solomon's Temple and The Dome of the Rock, drawing on an exhaustive review of all the visual and textual evidence Relayed as a gripping narrative, allowing readers to re-enter and experience the emotions and the visceral reality of the major events in its history Integrates illustration with the text to offer a highly detailed and accurate portrait of the major structures and figures involved in the history of the temple Opens up a fascinating line of questioning into the conventional interpretation of events, particularly Christ's actions in the Temple Reproduces rarely seen detailed drawings of the subterranean passages beneath Temple Mount as part of the British survey in the 19th century
Anmerkung:
Intro -- Solomon's Temple -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 Solomon's Temple -- The Ark of the Covenant -- King David -- The Temple of Solomon -- Nebuchadnezzar II -- Chapter 2 Herod -- The Maccabeans -- Pompey -- Herod -- Herod Demolishes the Second Temple -- The Third Temple -- The Royal Portico -- Chapter 3 "Not... one stone upon another -- Moneychangers -- Paul -- The Temple Destroyed -- Chapter 4 The Holy Sepulcher -- Hadrian and Aelia Capitolina -- Constantine -- The Plague -- The Fall of Rome -- Hagia Sophia -- Madaba -- The Persian War -- Chapter 5 Dome of the Rock -- Muhammad and the Fall of Jerusalem -- Umar in Jerusalem -- The Dome of the Rock -- The Rock -- Chapter 6 Templum Domini -- The Jews Return -- The First Crusade -- Crusader Jerusalem -- Templum Domini -- The Templars in the Palace of Solomon -- Saladin -- Chapter 7 Recreating the Temple -- In the Imagination of Priests -- The Temple in the Popular Imagination -- Return to Mount Moriah -- Chapter 8 Jerusalem -- Views -- Maps -- British Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem -- The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) -- Jerusalem and World War I -- Chapter 9 Al-Haram Al-Sharif -- The Path to Conflict -- Jerusalem Under Transjordan -- An Naksah, The Six Day War -- Liberation of Temple Mount -- Archeology and the Western Wall -- The Burning of Al-Aqsa Mosque -- Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount -- The Rabbi's Tunnel -- Continual Provocation -- Rabbi's Tunnel Revisited -- Camp David Summit -- The Second Intifada -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments, Sources, and Methods -- Sources and methods -- Index -- Supplementary Images
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Balfour, Alan Solomon's Temple Somerset : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2012 ISBN 9780470674956
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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