Jerusalem, Jerusalem How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World

Name: Jerusalem, Jerusalem How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World
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ISBN: 9780547747620

ISBN-10: 0547747624

ISBN-13: 9780547747620

Edition: 2011

Authors: James Carroll

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James Carroll’s urgent, masterlyJerusalem, Jerusalemuncovers the ways in which the ancient city became, unlike any other in the world—reaching deep into our contemporary lives—an incendiary fantasy of a city. In Carroll’s provocative reading of the deep past, the Bible’s brutality responded to the violence that threatened Jerusalem from the start. Centuries later, the mounting European fixation on a heavenly Jerusalem sparked both anti-Semitism and racist colonial contempt. The holy wars of the Knights Templar burned apocalyptic mayhem into the Western mind. Carroll’s brilliant and original leap is to show how, as Christopher Columbus carried his own Jerusalemcentric worldview to the West,…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

James Carroll is the author of nine novels & the memoir "An American Requiem," which won the National Book Award. His essays on culture & politics appear weekly in the "Boston Globe." He wrote "Constantine's Sword" while on fellowships at Harvard University. Before becoming a writer, Carroll was a Catholic priest. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.




Introduction: Two Jerusalems



Heat



Jerusalem Today



Hic



A Personal Note



Deep Violence



The Clock of the Past



Mark Makers



Enter Jerusalem



Sacrifice



The Bible Resists



Wartime Literature



Wars That Did Not Happen



Godï¿½s Ambivalence



Conceived in Jerusalem, Born in Exile from Jerusalem



The Empty Temple



Abrahamï¿½s Kill



Apocalypse Then



The Cross Against Itsesf



Jesus to Jerusalem



Romeï¿½s War and Its Consequences



The New Temple



Scapegoat Mechanism



The Violence of Christians



Apocalypse Now



The Rock of Islam



No god but God



A1 Quds



The Masterpiece Relic



Jerusalem Agonistes



1099



Knights Templar



Christopher the Christ Bearer



City on a Hill



Reformation Wars



Separatists



The God of Peace



Return to Jerusalem



Temple Roots



Jerusalem Marchers



Messian Nation



Jerusalem and Exile



The Printing Press and Ottoman Jerusalem



The Peaceful Crusade



Restorationism



Abrahams Altar



Godï¿½s Right Arm



Apostolic Succession



Jerusalem Builded Here



The Last Crusader



Diasporaï¿½s End



Waiting to Baptize You



Grand Mufti



Eichmann in Jerusalem



Nakba



Soap



Twins in Trauma



Millennium



The Temple Weapons



Sacrifice Operatives



Crusade



Conclusion: Good Religion



Neither Secular Nor Sacred



Not Godï¿½s Way, But Manï¿½s



Learning from History


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index