Jerusalem's Temple Mount : from Solomon to the golden Dome / Hershel Shanks.

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Shanks, Hershel.

Title & Author:

Jerusalem's Temple Mount : from Solomon to the golden Dome / Hershel Shanks.

Publication:

Description:

ix, 206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
This is a revision of portions of the author's earlier work Jerusalem.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why this book? -- Dome of the Rock -- The interregnum -- Herod's Temple -- The first Second Temple -- Solomon's Temple -- Before Solomon's Temple -- Conclusion.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP30.00 0.

Summary:

According to the Hebrew Bible, King Solomon built a Temple to the Lord in Jerusalem on a threshing floor that his father, King David, purchased from Araunah the Jebusite for 50 shekels of silver. "No other building of the ancient world," claims the Anchor Bible Dictionary, "either while it stood in Jerusalem or in the millennia since its final destruction has been the focus of so much attention throughout the ages." This stunning book, with its 160 illustrations, is a history of the Temple or Temples in Jerusalem from Solomon's time to the present. The book reads like an archaeological excavation, digging deeper and deeper at one site. Starting with a discussion of the Palestinian denial of a Jewish Temple, the book proceeds to explore the Islamic Dome of the Rock, the little-known Roman Temple of Jupiter, Herod's massive Temple Mount, the Temple built by the exiles returning from Babylon, and finally Solomon's Temple. With a lively and informative text to accompany the pictures, Jerusalem's Temple Mount is replete with archaeology, history, legends (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim), inscriptions, biblical interpretations, and forgeries. - Publisher.

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ISBN:

9780826428844 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0826428843 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) History.
Temple de Jérusalem (Jérusalem) Histoire.
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel) History
Excavations (Archaeology) Jerusalem.
Fouilles (Archéologie) Jérusalem.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Excavations (Archaeology) Israel Jerusalem
Temple Mount (Jerusalem) History.
Temple Mount (Jerusalem) Antiquities.
Jerusalem History.
Jerusalem Antiquities.
Temple, Colline du (Jérusalem) Histoire.
Jérusalem Histoire.
Jérusalem Antiquités.
Middle East Jerusalem
Middle East Jerusalem Temple Mount
Temple Mount (Jerusalem, Israel) History
Temple Mount (Jerusalem, Israel) Antiquities
Jerusalem (Israel) History
Jerusalem (Israel) Antiquities
Jerusalem Tempel.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Shanks, Hershel. Jerusalem.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256046
Call No.: BIB 186332
Status: Available

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