Research Catalog

Title

The topography of ancient Jerusalem : essays on the urban planning record, defences and gates : 2nd century BC-2nd century AD / by Dominique-Marie Cabaret, O.P., École biblique et archéologique française, Jerusalem ; translated from the French by David Orton.

Author

Cabaret, Dominique-Marie, 1967-

Publication

• Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

Orton, David E.

Description

373 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), plans; 30 x 21 cm.

Summary

"Jerusalem had a turbulent history and an urban evolution, which we find described by the historians of Antiquity. For 130 years attempts have been made to trace the lines of the ramparts, understand the sieges, reconstruct the great buildings and reveal the underlying planning. Crusader eyes first discerned the great monuments, long since vanished: Herod's Temple, Hadrian's Capitoline temple and Justinian's long Christian basilica. All they had in front of them was the wall of the Temple, Constantine's Holy Sepulchre and the Dome of the Rock. They scrutinized Jerusalem tirelessly, with a skill and a passion that still demand respect, and they felt they knew the city. has become a subject that arouses curiosity around the world. The ever-increasing quantity of interdisciplinary research is bringing new documents to light every day. Old maps, the potential of pre-1914 photographs found tucked away in drawers, and the availability of new technologies like satellite photography and computer data-processing are radically changing the methods of investigation. Dominique-Marie Cabaret tackles the whole complexity of the city head-on. Respectfully taking the current state of knowledge on board he conducts his investigation with the analytical skill of an engineer. His alternative approach has opened up new insights for him. Living on the spot, and familiar with the city from years of walking the streets and alleys, secret places, squares and courtyards, he has sought to test his intuitions armed with a pencil, a ten-metre tape-measure and a calculator. He found himself able to discern the geometry of the great works in the districts of the Hasmonean princes, then those of Herod and the whole area of Hadrian's Aelia Capitolina, transformed by the ravages of time but with their organisational principles still intact. The intersections of the city's main thoroughfares bear the marks of their ideologies. The sites of the great buildings have left the imprint of their policies or their competing propaganda. Cabaret radically changes our view of ancient Jerusalem. His watchmaker skills are put to excellent use as he describes the city planning grids and places them in relation to each other. Our curiosity builds as we follow along in his text. The bold thesis of this work will breathe new life into what promises to become a fruitful debate."--

Series Statement

Cahiers de la Revue biblique, 0575-0741 ; 102. Series archaeologica ; 4

Uniform Title

• Topographie de la Jérusalem antique. English
• Cahiers de la Revue biblique ; 102.
• Cahiers de la Revue biblique. Series archaeologica ; 4.

Alternative Title

Topographie de la Jérusalem antique.

Subject

• Romans > Jerusalem
• Christian antiquities > Jerusalem
• City walls > Jerusalem
• Architecture > Jerusalem
• Antiquities
• Architecture
• Buildings
• Christian antiquities
• City walls
• Classical antiquities
• Romans
• Jerusalem > Antiquities
• Jerusalem > Antiquities, Roman
• Temple Mount (Jerusalem)
• Jerusalem > Buildings, structures, etc
• Middle East > Jerusalem
• Middle East > Jerusalem > Temple Mount

Note

• Translation of: La topographie de la Jérusalem antique.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-356) and index.

Contents

General introduction -- Course of Jerusalem's Second Wall -- Quarter inside the Second Wall -- Bezetha district and western district outside the walls -- The enlargement of the Temple and its upheavals -- The Ecce Homo Arch -- Jerusalem's Third Wall -- The camp of the Tenth Legion Fretensis -- The new layout of Ælia Capitolina -- The forum of Ælia Capitolina and Hadrian's platform -- General conclusion.

Call Number

JFG 22-158

ISBN

• 9789042948198
• 9042948191

OCLC

1303211584

Author

Cabaret, Dominique-Marie, 1967- author.

Title

The topography of ancient Jerusalem : essays on the urban planning record, defences and gates : 2nd century BC-2nd century AD / by Dominique-Marie Cabaret, O.P., École biblique et archéologique française, Jerusalem ; translated from the French by David Orton.

Publisher

Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cahiers de la Revue biblique, 0575-0741 ; 102. Series archaeologica ; 4

Cahiers de la Revue biblique ; 102.

Cahiers de la Revue biblique. Series archaeologica ; 4.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-356) and index.

Added Author

Orton, David E., translator.

Translation Of:

Translation of: Cabaret, Dominique-Marie, 1967- Topographie de la Jérusalem antique. Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2020 9789042942431 (DLC) 2020384440 (OCoLC)1151886672

Other Form:

9789042948204 e-book version

Research Call Number

JFG 22-158