City of the great king : Jerusalem from David to the present /

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Other Authors: Rosovsky, Nitza.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.

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Call Number: DS109.9 .C580 1996

Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Inhabitants of Jerusalem Part 1. The Heavenly City 2. The Holy Places 3. Jerusalem in Jewish Spirituality 4. The Holy City in Christian Thought 5. The Spiritual Meaning of Jerusalem in Islam 6. Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 7. Jewish Pilgrimage after the Destruction of the Second Temple Part 2. The Earthly City 8. Jerusalem and Zionism 9. Palestinian Images of Jerusalem Part 3. The City In Literature, Art, And Architecture 10. Jerusalem in Medieval Islamic Literature 11. Nineteenth-Century Portraits through Western EyesNineteenth-Century Portraits through Western Eyes 12. Depictions in Modern Hebrew Literature 13. Geography and Geometry of Jerusalem 14. Jerusalem Elsewhere 15. The City in Jewish Folk Art 16. The Image of the Holy City in Maps and Mapping 17. Two Islamic Construction Plans for al-Haram al-Sharif 18. Architecture of the City outside the Walls.