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Jerusalem Besieged

Author : Eric H. Cline
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472025376
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem Besieged written by Eric H. Cline and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jerusalem Besieged is a fascinating account of how and why a baffling array of peoples, ideologies, and religions have fought for some four thousand years over a city without either great wealth, size, or strategic importance. Cline guides us through the baffling, but always bloody, array of Jewish, Roman, Moslem, Crusader, Ottoman, Western, Arab, and Israeli fights for possession of such a symbolic prize in a manner that is both scholarly and engaging." -Victor Davis Hanson, Stanford University; author of The Other Greeks and Carnage and Culture "A beautifully lucid presentation of four thousand years of history in a single volume. Cline writes primarily as an archaeologist-avoiding polemic and offering evidence for any religious claims-yet he has also incorporated much journalistic material into this study. Jerusalem Besieged will enlighten anyone interested in the history of military conflict in and around Jerusalem." -Col. Rose Mary Sheldon, Virginia Military Institute "This groundbreaking study offers a fascinating synthesis of Jerusalem's military history from its first occupation into the modern era. Cline amply deploys primary source material to investigate assaults on Jerusalem of every sort, starting at the dawn of recorded history. Jerusalem Besieged is invaluable for framing the contemporary situation in the Middle East in the context of a very long and pertinent history." -Baruch Halpern, Pennsylvania State University A sweeping history of four thousand years of struggle for control of one city "[An] absorbing account of archaeological history, from the ancient Israelites' first conquest to today's second intifada. Cline clearly lays out the fascinating history behind the conflicts." -USA Today "A pleasure to read, this work makes this important but complicated subject fascinating." -Jewish Book World "Jerusalem Besieged is a fascinating account of how and why a baffling array of peoples, ideologies, and religions have fought for some four thousand years over a city without either great wealth, size, or strategic importance. Cline guides us through the baffling, but always bloody, array of Jewish, Roman, Moslem, Crusader, Ottoman, Western, Arab, and Israeli fights for possession of such a symbolic prize in a manner that is both scholarly and engaging." -Victor Davis Hanson, Stanford University; author of The Other Greeks and Carnage and Culture

The Siege of Jerusalem

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1554811589
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book The Siege of Jerusalem written by Anonymous and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Siege of Jerusalem (c. 1370-90 CE) is a difficult text. By twenty-first-century standards, it is gruesomely violent and offensive. It tells the story of the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE, an event viewed by its author (as by many in the Middle Ages) as divine retribution against Jews for the killing of Christ. It anachronistically turns first-century Roman emperors Titus and Vespasian into Christian converts who battle like medieval crusaders to avenge their savior and cleanse the Holy Land of enemies of the faith. It makes little sense without frank understanding of medieval Christian anti-Semitism. There is, nevertheless, some consensus that Siege is a finely crafted piece of poetry, and that its combination of horror, beauty, and learnedness makes it an effective work of art. As literary scholar A.C. Spearing has put it, “We may not like what the poet does, but it is done with skillful craftsmanship and sometimes with brilliant virtuosity.” The tale that the anonymous Siege poet tells, moreover, is an important and still reverberating part of the history of Western thinking about the East. It is, in Yehuda Amichai’s phrase, a “currency of the past” that continues to be negotiated. The first-century destruction of Jerusalem has been understood in both Christian and Jewish traditions as the beginning of the Jewish Diaspora; for medieval Christians it was also a model of successful Christian leadership and justified warfare, an allegory of political and personal spiritual battle. As part of the story of the historical rift between Christianity and Judaism—and of the inevitable victory of Christianity—the destroyed Second Temple was taken as symbolic of the fall of Judaism and the rise of the new Christian era in which anyone who rejected Christ would suffer. Written in alliterative verse in the late fourteenth century, The Siege of Jerusalem seems to have been popular in its day; at least nine fourteenth- and fifteen-century manuscripts containing the poem have come down to us. Yet this is the first volume to offer a full Modern English translation. In addition, appendices provide extensive samples of the alliterative original, a wide-ranging compendium of materials documenting anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages, comparative biblical passages, and much else.

Besieged

Author : J. Bowyer Bell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351314106
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Besieged written by J. Bowyer Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Bowyer Bell's Beseiged is built on the premise that as long as men have constructed walls, other men have tried to scale them. From ancient Jericho and Joshua's trumpet to London and the onslaught of the Luftwaffe, people have always devised cunning weapons, with all the skills at their command, to breach such barriers and invade the camps and fortified places of their enemies. Beseiged is the story of seven great modern sieges: Madrid in the Spanish Civil War; London, Warsaw, Singapore and Stalingrad in World War II; Berlin during the Post World War II Airlift; and Jerusalem under Arab attack from four sides in 1947. Bell, a veteran historian, describes in detail the actual battles involved, clearly demonstrating the universality of sieges and siegecraft and showing that all these beleaguered places have things in common and obey certain basic laws or principles. Bell points out commonalities showing, for example, though no bullets were fired during the Berlin Airlift, the city itself was as much under siege as was Warsaw, where the Polish Underground fought a fierce but hopeless battle against Hitler's Wehrmacht. By the same token, Bell shows though no German infantry ever came close to London, it was nonetheless besieged by aerial squadrons just as surely as Stalingrad was by both German and Russian ground forces. The histories of these sieges are ones of heroism and cowardice, meticulous planning and incredible blunders, all of which can be studied and used even currently in similar situations in either defending, or piercing the defenses of, a location in times of unrest or war. Beseiged is a must-read for those interested in modern conflict pondering the enigma of human endeavor in wall building and breaking involved in siegecraft. A must-read for everyone from military strategist aficionados and historians to science and technology buffs. If it is to be believed the danger of not knowing history is the possibility of unknowingly repeating it, then Beseiged should appear on all required reading lists.

The Israel Test

Author : George Gilder
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594036136
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Israel Test written by George Gilder and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, George Gilder claims that the reason there is such hatred and crticism of the current state of Israel is because these critics are envious of Israel’s sudden rise as a world power. This, he claims, is an inherent quality of Judaism, which, “perhaps more than any other religion, favors capitalist activity and provides a rigorous moral framework for it.” Those who currently hate Israel’s economy, such as surrounding countries in the Middle East and Western European nations that are facing socialist decline, have failed the “Israel Test” because they seek to tear down this country’s success, and America’s ability and desire to defend Israel will define our future survival as a nation: “If Israel is destroyed,” he says, “capitalist Europe will likely die as well, and America, as the epitome of productive and creative capitalism spurred by Jews, will be in jeopardy.”

Baptist Missionary Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Baptist Missionary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient History. A Synopsis of the Rise, Progress, Decline and Fall of the States and Nations of Antiquity

Author : John Robinson (Rector of Clifton, Westmoreland.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient History. A Synopsis of the Rise, Progress, Decline and Fall of the States and Nations of Antiquity written by John Robinson (Rector of Clifton, Westmoreland.) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient history, by J. Robinson and F. Young. 4 vols. [in 1].

Author : John Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Ancient history, by J. Robinson and F. Young. 4 vols. [in 1]. written by John Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of the Jewish People During the Maccabean and Roman Periods

Author : James Stevenson Riggs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Jewish People During the Maccabean and Roman Periods written by James Stevenson Riggs and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Statistician

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Annual Statistician written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Statistician and Economist

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Annual Statistician and Economist written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

McCarty's Annual Statistician

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book McCarty's Annual Statistician written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Statistician and Economist

Author : John P. Mains
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Statistician and Economist written by John P. Mains and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jerusalem Embattled

Author : Harry Levin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem Embattled written by Harry Levin and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Holy Bible ...

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book The Holy Bible ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The holy Bible, ed. by T.K. Cheyne [and others. A.V.].

Author : Thomas Kelly Cheyne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1324 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The holy Bible, ed. by T.K. Cheyne [and others. A.V.]. written by Thomas Kelly Cheyne and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Prophets of Israel

Author : Carl Heinrich Cornill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Prophets of Israel written by Carl Heinrich Cornill and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The prophets of Israel popular sketches from old testament history, by Carl Heinrich Cornill, translated by Sutton F. Corkran

Author : Carl Heinrich Cornill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The prophets of Israel popular sketches from old testament history, by Carl Heinrich Cornill, translated by Sutton F. Corkran written by Carl Heinrich Cornill and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: