Jerusalem
First published in two volumes between 1907 and 1908, this major work by the Scottish biblical scholar and geographer Sir George Adam Smith (1856–1942) is organised into three books. Volume 2 contains the third book and consists of a historical narrative that clarifies political and religious developments in ancient Jerusalem. It contains a number of useful maps, plans and photographs. Best known for his celebrated Historical Geography of the Holy Land (1894), Smith provides here a more detailed and specialist analysis, based on first-hand knowledge derived from the visits he made to the region over the years. Spanning more than fourteen centuries of Jerusalem's history from 1400 BCE to 70 CE, these well-illustrated volumes remain a standard work of scholarship, expertly elucidating the changing shape of the city.
Product details
October 2013Paperback
9781108063524
674 pages
216 × 140 × 38 mm
0.84kg
5 b/w illus. 7 maps
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Table of Contents
- Prefatory note
- Table of the principal stages in the history
- Part III. The History:
- 1. The prelude
- 2. The conquest by David
- 3. Solomon and the temple
- 4. From Rehoboam to Ahaz
- 5. Isaiah's Jerusalem, from 740 onwards
- 6. Hezekiah and Sennacherib
- 7. Jerusalem under Manasseh
- 8. Josiah: Jerusalem and Deuteronomy
- 9. Jeremiah's Jerusalem
- 10. The desolate city
- 11. The ideal city and the real
- 12. The second temple, from Zechariah to Malachi
- 13. Ezra and Nehemiah
- 14. The rest of the Persian period
- 15. The Jew and the Greek
- 16. Jerusalem under the Maccabees and the Hasmoneans
- 17. Herod, the Romans and Jerusalem
- 18. Herod's castle and temple
- 19. The temple and the Lord
- 20. Jerusalem of the gospels
- Appendix
- General index
- Special indexes.