Jerusalem: Portrait of the City in the Second Temple Period (538 B.C.E–70 C.E.) By Lee I. Levine. Pp. xviii + 486. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2002. isbn 0 8276 0750 4. Cased. n.p
The history of Jerusalem is ineluctably contentious. Ever since King David made it the political and religious capital of the united kingdom, the Holy City has had a symbolic weight far above any commercial or strategic importance. Even that last sentence will raise some hackles. To use the biblical...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 597-599 |
| Review of: | Jerusalem (Philadelphia, Pa. : The Jewish Publication Society, 2002) (Goldhill, Simon)
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| Summary: | The history of Jerusalem is ineluctably contentious. Ever since King David made it the political and religious capital of the united kingdom, the Holy City has had a symbolic weight far above any commercial or strategic importance. Even that last sentence will raise some hackles. To use the biblical narrative to ground a historical account will be characterized in some quarters as naive at best and as dangerously ideological at worst. From another angle, the latest revisionism of Palestinian historians has claimed the Jebusites, whom David defeated, as the ancestors of the Palestinian people, and thus the original owners of the city. Ancient history cannot escape contemporary polemics in this of all cities. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flj099 |