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Jerusalem Besieged
Eric H. Cline
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Description for Jerusalem Besieged
Paperback. The accounts of ten major conflicts in and around Jerusalem show how the battles of yesterday become the propaganda of today. Num Pages: 432 pages, 10 photographs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 688.
Jerusalem Besieged offers a sweeping history across the millennia, yet focuses on a single location—a view of centuries of often violent battles for one city.
Author Eric Cline tells the story of four thousand years of struggles for control of Jerusalem, a city central to three major religions and held sacred by millions of people throughout the world. No other city has been more bitterly fought over throughout its history. Jerusalem, whose name to some means "City of Peace," has seen at least 118 separate conflicts during the past four millennia—conflicts that ranged from local religious uprisings to strategic ... Read more
Jerusalem Besieged offers a sweeping history across the millennia, yet focuses on a single location—a view of centuries of often violent battles for one city.
Author Eric Cline tells the story of four thousand years of struggles for control of Jerusalem, a city central to three major religions and held sacred by millions of people throughout the world. No other city has been more bitterly fought over throughout its history. Jerusalem, whose name to some means "City of Peace," has seen at least 118 separate conflicts during the past four millennia—conflicts that ranged from local religious uprisings to strategic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472031207
SKU
V9780472031207
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About Eric H. Cline
Eric H. Cline is Associate Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology in the Department of Classical and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on the ancient world, including The Battles of Armageddon (University of Michigan Press, 2000), which won the 2001 Biblical Archaeology Society ... Read more
Reviews for Jerusalem Besieged
[An] absorbing account of archaeological history, from the ancient Israelites' first conquest to today's second intifada. Cline clearly lays out the fascinating history behind the conflicts." — USA Today "Jerusalem Besieged is a fascinating account of how and why a baffling array of peoples, ideologies, and religions have fought for some 3,000 years over a city without either great ... Read more