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The Temple of Jerusalem

Title
The Temple of Jerusalem / Simon Goldhill.
Author
Goldhill, Simon.
Publication
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2005.

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Description
194 pages : illustrations; 20 cm.
Summary
"The Temple has become the world's most potent symbol of the human search for a lost ideal, an image of greatness. Goldhill travels across cultural and temporal boundaries to convey the full extent of its impact on religious, artistic, and scholarly imaginations. Through biblical stories and ancient texts, rabbinical writings, archaeological records, and modern accounts, he traces the Temple's shifting significance for Jews, Christians, and Muslims." "A complex and engaging history of a singular locus of the imagination - a site of longing for the Jews; a central metaphor of Christian thought; an icon for Muslims; the Dome of the Rock - The Temple of Jerusalem also offers unique insight into where Judaism, Christianity, and Islam differ in interpreting their shared inheritance. It is a story that, from the Crusades onward, has helped form the modern political world."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Wonders of the world
Uniform Title
Wonders of the world (Cambridge, Mass.)
Subject
  • Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) > History
  • Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) > Design and construction
  • Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
  • Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)
  • Antiquities
  • Tabernacle
  • Jerusalem > Antiquities
  • Middle East > Jerusalem
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2004.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-183) and index.
Contents
A monument of the imagination -- Solomon's Temple: the glory and the destruction -- Rebuilding the temple: a vision from exile -- Herod's temple: a wonder of the world -- The temple of the scholars: a building of words -- Your body is a temple -- Caliphs and crusaders -- The artist's eye -- Travellers' tales -- Archaeology and imperialism -- The temple as myth: Freemasons and Knights Templar -- The temple is ours!
ISBN
  • 0674017978
  • 9780674017979
LCCN
2004054307
OCLC
  • ocm56510184
  • 56510184
  • SCSB-14415921
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library