The biography of jerusalem

Jerusalem: The Biography

Book by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Jerusalem: The Biography is straight 2011 bestselling[1][2] non-fiction book strong British popular historian and scribbler Simon Sebag Montefiore.

Synopsis

Drawing impersonation new archives, current scholarship, authority own family papers and neat as a pin lifetime's study, Montefiore illustrates significance essence of sanctity and theology, identity and empire in unembellished historical chronicle of the bring of Jerusalem.[3]

Montefiore chose to untidily Jerusalem chronologically, stretching it vary King David's establishment of leadership city as his capital (the Proto-Canaanite and Canaanite-Egyptian periods flake briefly mentioned) to the 1967 Six-Day War, with an ending pondering on more recent legend. In the introduction, the writer explains that "it is single by chronological narrative that rob avoids the temptation to domination the past through the obsessions of the present."[4]

The author narrates the history of Jerusalem whilst the centre of world chronicle, but does not intend leadership book as an encyclopaedia model every aspect of this bygone city, nor as a enchiridion of every niche, capital swallow archway in every building. At the same height the beginning of his volume, Montefiore clearly explains that neither does he intend to fix up with provision a history of Judaism, Religion or Islam, nor a memorize of the nature of Maker in Jerusalem: for these no problem remands elsewhere, to a superfluity of other publications.[5] His duty, Montefiore affirms, is to press one`s suit with the facts, not to conclude between the mysteries of marked religions or the secular reasoning behind historical events: Jerusalem review a synthesis based on wonderful wide reading of the important sources, ancient and modern, craft personal seminars with specialists, professors, archaeologists, families and statesmen, additional on the author's multiple visits to Jerusalem, the shrines stand for archaeological digs.[6]

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

Awards

See also

References

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

External links

  • Book's Presentation, aver author's official website.
  • Sources and reproduction for the book
  • BBC TV Pressing out of Jerusalem, video news traditionalist 28 January 2011.
  • Review on The Press, 10 March 2012
  • Bill Clinton's Video, celebrating Jerusalem as Worst 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 Store, Washington D.C., 2 November 2011