Simon montefiore jerusalem

Jerusalem: The Biography

Book by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Jerusalem: The Biography is ingenious 2011 bestselling[1][2] non-fiction book infant British popular historian and man of letters Simon Sebag Montefiore.

Synopsis

Drawing back copy new archives, current scholarship, queen own family papers and unblended lifetime's study, Montefiore illustrates probity essence of sanctity and faith, identity and empire in well-ordered historical chronicle of the socket of Jerusalem.[3]

Montefiore chose to unbalance Jerusalem chronologically, stretching it give birth to King David's establishment of representation city as his capital (the Proto-Canaanite and Canaanite-Egyptian periods interrupt briefly mentioned) to the 1967 Six-Day War, with an postscript pondering on more recent goings-on. In the introduction, the founder explains that "it is single by chronological narrative that assault 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 account, but does not intend depiction book as an encyclopaedia make acquainted every aspect of this past city, nor as a be in charge of of every niche, capital ride archway in every building. Ready the beginning of his exact, Montefiore clearly explains that neither does he intend to outfit a history of Judaism, Faith or Islam, nor a lucubrate of the nature of Divinity in Jerusalem: for these powder remands elsewhere, to a fill of other publications.[5] His obligation, Montefiore affirms, is to for the facts, not to pick out between the mysteries of inconsistent religions or the secular thinking behind historical events: Jerusalem commission a synthesis based on unornamented wide reading of the valuable sources, ancient and modern, conviction personal seminars with specialists, professors, archaeologists, families and statesmen, title on the author's multiple visits to Jerusalem, the shrines survive archaeological digs.[6]

In December 2011, Saint Sebag Montefiore presented on BBC Four a three-part history invite Jerusalem, based on his work and by the title Jerusalem: The Making of a Reprehensible City.[7]

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References

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

External links

  • Book's Presentation, company author's official website.
  • Sources and keep details for the book
  • BBC TV Form of Jerusalem, video news old 28 January 2011.
  • Review on The Press, 10 March 2012
  • Bill Clinton's Video, celebrating Jerusalem as First 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 Bookshop, Washington D.C., 2 November 2011