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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Though this is a very good book, I found I needed to take a break after about 200 pages. The accounts of horrific massacres and gruesome murders were getting to be just too much. That said, this is a gripping, fast-moving survey of the history of a city everyone has heard of, for good or ill. The writing is also very good. The footnotes, though, are a mixed bag. Some are very long and not all seem strictly necessary. I did learn a few things from them, however! A thoroughly worthwhile read then, if you can take it. Recommended. CUPRINS 1. Prefata - pag. 13 2. Multlumiri - pag. 21 3. Prolog - pag. 25 Partea întâi. IUDAISMUL - pag. 35 4. Capitolul unu. Lumea lui David - pag. 37 5. Capitolul doi. Ascensiunea lui David - pag. 42 6. Capitolul trei. Regatul si Templul - pag. 45 7. Capitolul patru. Regii Iudei (930–626 î.e.n.) - pag. 53 8. Capitolul cinci. Târfa Babilonului (930–626 î.e.n.) - pag. 62 9. Capitolul sase. Persii (586–539 î.e.n.) - pag. 68 10. Capitolul sapte. Macedonenii (539–336 î.e.n.) - pag. 73 11. Capitolul opt. Macabeii (164–66 î.e.n.) - pag. 83 12. Capitolul noua. Sosirea romanilor (66–40 î.e.n.) - pag. 89 13. Capitolul zece. Irodienii (40 î.e.n.–10 e.n.) - pag. 95 14. Capitolul unsprezece. Iisus Hristos (10–40 e.n.) - pag. 110 15. Capitolul doisprezece. Ultimul Irod (40–66 e.n.) - pag. 124 16. Capitolul treisprezece. Razboaiele iudaice: moartea Ierusalimului (66–70 e.n.) - pag. 134 Partea a doua. PAGÂNISMUL - pag. 139 17. Capitolul paisprezece. Aelia Capitolina (70–312 e.n.) - pag. 141 Partea a treia. CRESTINISMUL - pag. 153 18. Capitolul cincisprezece. Apogeul Bizanflului (312–518 e.n.) - pag. 155 19. Capitolul saisprezece. Apogeul Bizantului: invazia persanæ (518–630) - pag. 169 Partea a patra. ISLAMUL - pag. 177 20. Capitolul saptesprezece. Cucerirea araba (630–660) - pag. 179 21. Capitolul optsprezece. Omeiazii: restaurarea Templului (660–750) - pag. 187 22. Capitolul nouasprezece. Abbasizii: stapânii de departe (750–969) - pag. 196 23. Capitolul douazeci. Fatimizii: toleranta si sminteala (696–1099) - pag. 200 Partea a cincea. CRUCIADELE - pag. 211 24. Capitolul douazeci si unu. Masacrul (1099) - pag. 213 25. Capitolul douazeci si doi. Ascensiunea tinutului de peste Mare (1100–1131) - pag. 221 26. Capitolul douazeci si trei. Epoca de aur a tinutului de peste Mare (1131–1142) - pag. 225 27. Capitolul douazeci si patru. Impasul (1142–1174) - pag. 235 28. Capitolul douazeci si cinci. Regele lepros (1174–1187) - pag. 243 29. Capitolul douazeci si sase. Saladin (1187–1189) pag. 248 30. Capitolul douazeci si sapte. A treia Cruciada (1189–1193) - pag. 257 31. Capitolul douazeci si opt. Dinastia lui Saladin (1193–1250) - pag. 63 Partea a sasea. MAMELUCII - pag. 273 32. Capitolul douazeci si noua. Sclavul sultanului (1250–1339) - pag. 275 33. Capitolul treizeci. Declinul mamelucilor (1399–1517) - pag. 282 Partea a saptea. OTOMANII - pag. 289 34. Capitolul treizeci si unu. Magnificenta lui Soliman (1517–1550) - pag. 291 35. Capitolul treizeci si doi. Mistici si mântuitori (1550–1705) - pag. 294 36. Capitolul treizeci si trei. Familiile (1705–1799) - pag. 307 Partea a opta. IMPERIUL - pag. 313 37. Capitolul treizeci si patru. Napoleon în tara Sfânta - pag. 315 38. Capitolul treizeci si cinci. Noii romantici: Chateaubriand si Disraeli (1806–1830) - pag. 319 39. Capitolul treizeci si sase. Cucerirea albanezæ (1830–1840) - pag. 326 40. Capitolul treizeci si sapte. Evanghelistii (1840–1855) - pag. 331 41. Capitolul treizeci si opt. Noul oras (1855–1860) - pag. 348 42. Capitolul treizeci si nouæ. Noua religie (1860–1870) - pag. 352 43. Capitolul patruzeci. Oraøul arab, orasul imperial (1870–1880) - pag. 357 44. Capitolul patruzeci si unu. Rusii (1880–1898) - pag. 364 Partea a noua. SIONISMUL - pag. 369 45. Capitolul patruzeci si doi. Kaiserul (1898–1905) - pag 371 46. Capitolul patruzeci si trei. Cântaretul la oud din Ierusalim (1905–1914) - pag. 379 47. Capitolul patruzeci si patru. Primul Razboi Mondial (1914–1916) - pag. 390 48. Capitolul patruzeci si cinci. Revolta Araba si Declaratia Balfour (1916–1917) - pag. 397 49. Capitolul patruzeci si sase. Cadoul de Craciun (1917–1919) - pag. 411 50. Capitolul patruzeci si sapte. Victoriosi si prazi de razboi (1919–1920) - pag. 421 51. Capitolul patruzeci si opt. Mandatul Britanic (1920–1936) - pag. 428 52. Capitolul patruzeci si noua. Revolta Araba (1936–1945) - pag. 440 53. Capitolul cincizeci. Razboiul murdar (1945–1947) - pag. 451 54. Capitolul cincizeci si unu. Independenfla evreilor, catastrofa arabilor (1948–1951) - pag. 464 55. Capitolul cincizeci si doi. Divizat (1951–1967) - pag. 471 56. Capitolul cincizeci si trei. Sase zile (1967) - pag. 478 57. Epilog - pag. 487 58. Bibliografie - pag. 509 59. Arbori genealogici - pag. 531 60. Harti - pag. 541 Oh, Jerusalem. There is no other place on Earth quite as tragic, drenched in both blood and history. And it makes for reading that cannot be put down. Here's the short version of why you should read Simon Sebag Montefiore's history of Jerusalem: In just under seven hundred pages, Jerusalem: The Biography is a satisfying, narrative-based history one of the most contested pieces of real estate in world history, if not the most contested. In those relatively few pages, Montefiore manages to give at least the appearance of objective attention to each of the major religions that dominate the city's history, as well as to the many, many conquerors that pass through its gates over its thousands of years of history. With all the sordid intrigue of an Italian opera, Jerusalem: The Biography is painfully tragic, proceeding chronologically with the march of history as it demands to be read from the introduction to the last page. Not a tale of the daily, mundane, or pedestrian, it is a story of kings, rulers, and the powerful. The average Jerusalemite appears only as a pawn of history, to be butchered, starved, driven-out, or resettled. As a Christian, it's hard to deny the allure of the holy city that was the setting for Jesus Christ's life. Indeed, even Christianity's god bemoaned the city, already ancient when he appeared, for its tragic past while alluding to the blood that would spill in its streets in coming years. And yet, as the reader turns through pages filled by debauchery, sieges, massacre, and horror, it is difficult to turn away from Montefiore's writing. Full of detail, Jerusalem is full of more detail than could possibly be necessary to know the history of the three-thousand-year old city, To point to how varied and thorough the detail Montefiore brings to bear as he tells his story, New York Times reviewer Jonathan Rosen started randomly opening pages throughout the book: "[O]n Page 4, Roman soldiers are crucifying 500 Jews a day in the run-up to the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70; on Page 75, Alexander Jannaeus, a much-loathed Jewish king of the first century B.C., after slaughtering 50,000 of his own people, celebrates his victory “by cavorting with his concubines at a feast while watching 800 rebels being crucified around the hills.” Crucifixion was so common in the ancient world, Montefiore notes in one of his many fascinating asides, that Jews and gentiles alike had taken to wearing nails from victims as charms, anticipating what became a Christian tradition. And when the population dwindled — as after the First Crusade, which like a neutron bomb eliminated the infidels but preserved the holy places — you could always dash across the Jordan, like Baldwin the crusader king in 1115, and bring back “poverty-stricken Syrian and Armenian Christians, whom he invited to settle in Jerusalem, ancestors of today’s Palestinian Christians.”" Despite his penchant for detail, Montefiore never seems to lose control of his narrative. Where tedium might threaten, a danger when facing a constant march of dates, names, and places, Montefiore seems to imbue his story with a kind of epicness... It is a city that is larger than history, exerting a magnetism on the peoples and nations that seem unable to avoid its attraction. Like a black hole, it seems to distort the laws of history and the decisions of otherwise rational actors who come too close to its gravitational pull. And yet, the city is by no means as romantic as each successive re-writer of history would imagine it. From the barbarity of the crusaders at the turn of the first millennium to the dung-heap on the Temple Mount Caliph Omar found when he took the city in the 600s, to the modern-day controversies (including Yassir Arafat's head-scratching claim that Jerusalem had never been the site of the Jewish Temple). Still, Montefiore takes pains to be fair to Jewish, Christian, and Islamic relationships to the city, all while correcting oft-repeated myths and politically charged rewrites of history. In some senses, it can be hard to read Jerusalem: The Biography and see a god in all of this violence. And yet, it is not any god that has brought the seemingly unending death and war to the Holy Land, but the errant followers of the faiths that call Jerusalem home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-evIyrrjTTY
This is not an account of daily life or humble devotions. It’s a little like learning about the American West by watching a John Wayne movie: everyone is a gunslinger or a sheriff, with nameless extras diving under the bar when trouble starts. Still, for a book that spans 3,000 years, it does a remarkably inclusive job. Montefiore's narrative is remarkably objective when considering his own family's close links with Jewish Jerusalem. One might quibble with certain details, but overall it is a reliable and compelling account, with many interesting points. Nonetheless, this is compendious and fleet-footed history of a city where the glorification of God has always been built on bloodied soil. Pertenece a las series editorialesPremiosDistinciones
Referencias a esta obra en fuentes externas. Wikipedia en inglés (17)Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgment Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the "center of the world" and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem's biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women -- kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores -- who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Lincoln, Rasputin, Lawrence of Arabia and Moshe Dayan. Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime's study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice -- in heaven and on earth. - Publisher. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Grund genug dieses lesenswert spannende Buch zu studieren und in kaum merkbare Zeiten, Namen und Handlungen einzutauchen, schon der Titel macht Lust auf eine Historie, die mehr als fesselt. Die Inhalte Von der Antike bis Jesus waren mir größtenteils fremd, abgesehen von den biblisch bekannten Personen, ein echtes Sammelsurium an Kämpfen, Kriegen und Plünderungen, Mord und Totschlag. Wenig bleibt in Erinnerung, nur die erstaunliche Tatsache, dass Jerusalem immer wieder neu entsteht, robuster noch als zuvor.
Weil diese Aussage unkommentiert aufgeführt wird (S. 158 ) und eher Aggressivität insinuiert, möchte ich sie kurz erwähnen: „Ich bin nicht gekommen, den Frieden zu bringen, sondern das Schwert.“ (Matthäus 10,34) Übersetzt man diesen Satz tatsächlich aus dem Aramäischen in richtiger Weise (Franz Alt: Was Jesus wirklich gesagt hat) , dann heißt er: Seid nicht gutgläubig, seid wachsam! Wenn Ihr Euch mit anderen zusammensetzt, zieht das "Schwert der Worte" und streitet für Eure Sache. Meine Aufopferung, mein Selbstopfer bedeutet nicht Frieden, Erlösung als Automatismus, sie ist eher der Beginn des Kampfes um Wissen und Wahrheit.
Keinesfalls kann hier also eine irgendwie mögliche, direkte Kampfaussage hinein interpretiert werden. Jesus setzte sich im Tempel mit den Priestern auseinander und benutzte dafür das Schwert der Worte, das ihm letzten Endes die Kreuzigung einbrachte. Und Jesus meinte nicht nur die Gerechtigkeit in der jenseitigen Welt, sondern auch die in der aktuellen Welt.
Unglaubliche Ereignisse bis heute, Jerusalem lebte immer in maximaler explosiver Spannung, sehr gut beschrieben in diesem Buch, die Hauptstadt der einzigen Demokratie im Nahen Osten, immer unter Beschuss der Gegner wie Hamas oder Iran, … und genau jetzt: „Jerusalem … scheint intensiver zu leben als jeder andere Ort; alles bleibt gleich, und doch steht nichts still.“ Ein Pulverfass, das jederzeit hochgehen kann, ein Ort der Stille und Einkehr, des Gebets, der Feiern für alle 3 monotheistischen Religionen. Wenn hier jemand Frieden schaffen kann, in Demokratischer Verfassung, dann ist es das jüdische Volk, erfahren in der Auseinandersetzung mit anderen in allen Erdteilen und Religionen. Sehr oft gehe ich per YouTube auf Wanderschaft in Jerusalem und nichts beeindruckt mich mehr als die Gebete an der Klagemauer. Das Buch endet mit 3 Personen, die die Heiligtümer öffnen, bewachen und sauber halten: „Heute morgen“ (S. 749) „Jeder hat zwei Städte, seine eigene und Jerusalem.“ (Teddy Kolek) ( )