Jerusalem: Idea and Reality

by TAMAR MAYER; DEPARTMENT OF GEO

• ISBN13: 9780415421294
• ISBN10: 0415421292
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-06-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is a multidisciplinary study of one of the world's great cities, that is of enormous, historical, religious and political significance. Ever since the Temple crowned the skyline of Jerusalem, the city has captured the imagination of religious scholars, artists, politicians, and lay people, creating for Jerusalem an aura that transcends the boundaries of location, time, and reality. The essays in this volume realize the complexity of a city like Jerusalem, especially in terms of the many moods it invokes in those who cherish it, and how its many faces (both real and imagined) came to be formed and reformed throughout the centuries as a result of religious and socio-political factors. Written by many noted scholars in the fields of politics, history, geography, religious studies, sociology, art history, architecture and cultural studies, this is a valuable resource for all those interested in the wonders of Jerusalem.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. ix
Notes on contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Jerusalem: one city, one faith, one god	p. 14
Jerusalem in Jewish history, tradition, and memory	p. 27
The Temple Mount in Jewish and early Christian traditions: a new look	p. 47
Early Christian Jerusalem: the city of the cross	p. 67
The symbolism of Jerusalem in early Islam	p. 86
The holy fool still speaks: the Jerusalem Syndrome as a religious subculture	p. 103
Sacred space and mythic time in the early printed maps of Jerusalem	p. 123
Seeing is believing: Auguste Salzmann and the photographic representation of Jerusalem	p. 140
Fayruz, the Rahbani Brothers, Jerusalem, and the Leba-stinian song	p. 155
Jerusalem in the visual propaganda of post-revolutionary Iran	p. 168
Negotiating the city: a perspective of a Jerusalemite	p. 198
Jerusalem in the late Ottoman period: historical writing and the native voice	p. 205
Jerusalem in and out of focus: the city in Zionist ideology	p. 224
Administering Jordanian Jerusalem: constructing national identity	p. 245
The Palestinian political leadership in East Jerusalem after 1967	p. 266
Yerushalayim, al-Quds, and the Wizard of Oz: the problem of "Jerusalem" after Camp David II and the Aqsa Intifada	p. 283
Negotiating Jerusalem: reflections of an Israeli negotiator	p. 303
Index	p. 321
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