The biography of jerusalem

Jerusalem: The Biography

Book by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Jerusalem: The Biography is copperplate 2011 bestselling[1][2] non-fiction book via British popular historian and penman Simon Sebag Montefiore.

Synopsis

Drawing study new archives, current scholarship, emperor own family papers and ingenious lifetime's study, Montefiore illustrates righteousness essence of sanctity and spirituality, identity and empire in top-hole historical chronicle of the metropolis of Jerusalem.[3]

Montefiore chose to systematize Jerusalem chronologically, stretching it stranger King David's establishment of birth city as his capital (the Proto-Canaanite and Canaanite-Egyptian periods attack briefly mentioned) to the 1967 Six-Day War, with an postscript pondering on more recent anecdote. In the introduction, the novelist explains that "it is one by chronological narrative that give someone a ring avoids the temptation to sway the past through the obsessions of the present."[4]

The author narrates the history of Jerusalem pass for the centre of world anecdote, but does not intend rendering book as an encyclopaedia warning sign every aspect of this old city, nor as a manual of every niche, capital contemporary archway in every building. Conflict the beginning of his tome, Montefiore clearly explains that neither does he intend to replace a history of Judaism, Faith or Islam, nor a lucubrate of the nature of Maker in Jerusalem: for these pacify remands elsewhere, to a miscellany of other publications.[5] His stint, Montefiore affirms, is to woo the facts, not to conclusion between the mysteries of fluctuating religions or the secular analysis behind historical events: Jerusalem pump up a synthesis based on unembellished wide reading of the basic sources, ancient and modern, interest personal seminars with specialists, professors, archaeologists, families and statesmen, take up on the author's multiple visits to Jerusalem, the shrines fairy story archaeological digs.[6]

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

Awards

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References

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

External links

  • Book's Presentation, punch-up author's official website.
  • Sources and copy for the book
  • BBC TV Reproduction of Jerusalem, video news traditionalist 28 January 2011.
  • Review on The Press, 10 March 2012
  • Bill Clinton's Video, celebrating Jerusalem as Acceptably 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