“If you’re only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it.”---Seymour M. HershOne of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains v
This volume concludes the edition, translation, and commentary of the first order of the "Jerusalem Talmud". It contains four small but important tractates.The first, Ma‘aser ?eni, d
This volume of the Jerusalem Talmud publishes the first twotractates of the Second Order, abbat and Eruvin. These tractates deal with discussion of all regulations regarding Shabbat, the weekly day of
'God wills it, God wills it!' - this was the response to the sermon of Pope Urban II at Clermont in 1095, in which he exhorted his audience to take the cross and liberate Jerusalem. And his words spre
Jerome Murphy-O'Connor has lived in Jerusalem for 48 years, during which time he has taught graduate students its history and archaeology, and also compiled a bestselling archaeological guidebook for
Islamic Jerusalem has a special place in the hearts of the three monotheistic religions. Throughout its history it has been the site of tolerance and tensions. Islamic Jerusalem and its Christians pre
Looks at guilds of craftsmen and merchants of the period, arguing that the guilds were autonomous, local organizations rather than extensions of the authority of the central government. Examines the r
Now a retired business executive in Texas, Nammar describes his 1941 birth in a neighborhood of West Jerusalem named after his own family, and his experience growing up as a native person in the path
Before etching Jerusalem William Blake wrote about creating 'the grandest poem that this world contains.' Blake's avowed intention in constructing the work was to move readers from a solely rational
An independent scholar traces the life and travels in 724-6 AD of Bavarian Bishop Willibald of Eichstatt, written down 50 years later, the most documented pilgrimage to the Holy Land during the early
Jerusalem was the object of intense study and devotion throughout the Middle Ages. This collection of essays illuminates ways in which the city was represented by Christians in Western Europe, c. 700-
Five hundred years after he set sail, Columbus is still a controversial figure in history. Debates portray him either as the hero in the great drama of discovery or as an avaricious glory hunter and r
