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However, a Christian pilgrim from Bohemia who had visited Jerusalem in 1491–1492 wrote in his book Journey to Jerusalem: "Christians and Jews alike in Jerusalem lived in great poverty and in conditions of great deprivation, there are not many Christians but there are many Jews, and these the Muslims persecute in various ways. Christians and Jews go about in Jerusalem in clothes considered ...
Canaanite Artifacts. The long history of Jerusalem began well before it was captured by King David and made into the Capital of the People of Israel 3,000 years ago. Archeaological findings indicate the existence of a settlement in Jerusalem in the 3rd millenium BCE. The first mention of the city in historic sources begins in the 2nd millenium BCE.
- Archaeology of The Biblical Period
- Tombs
- Jerusalem & Judaism
- Christianity
- The Byzantine Era
- Islamic Jerusalem
- The Crusader Period
- The Complexity of Jerusalem
The major source for the history of ancient Jerusalem is the Bible and the writings of Flavius Josephus (36-100 CE). In the 19th century, archaeological excavations began in and around Jerusalem essentially to try to prove the biblical stories and to affirm the existence of its major characters such as King David and Solomon. In the modern era, exp...
Some Canaanite rock-cut tombs in the city date from 3100-2900 BCE. The earliest Israelite tombs date from the 800s BCE, and then the next surviving levels come from the Second Temple Period, late Roman and early Byzantine eras. Near the Zion Gate in the Old City is a tombthat Jews honor as the tomb of King David. However, many archaeologists have c...
In the book of Deuteronomy 12:5 (and other places), the Israelites are commanded not to worship at any site except in the place that the Lord "will choose." After the conquest of Jerusalem, this 'place' was aligned with the biblical tradition that Jerusalem sat atop the site known as Mt. Moriah, the mountain where Abraham demonstrated his faith whe...
Jerusalem remains significant for Christians who continue to revere the Old Testament traditions of the Jews. However, it is much more famous for the holy sites connected to stories of Jesus in the gospels. The pool of Bethesda has recently been excavated; it was found among the later pagan temples of Asclepius and Serapis(most probably built in Ha...
Constantine moved the capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople in 330 CE. This new center of the Roman Empire survived for another thousand years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. This era saw the building of many churches in Jerusalem and archaeologists continue to uncover ruins in and around Jerusalem. One of the sig...
Jerusalem was captured by Islamic forces in 638 CE. In 691 CE, the Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik commissioned the building of the shrine known as the Dome of the Rock on the site of the destroyed Second Temple. The Dome of the Rock is one of the oldest examples of Islamic architecture, and is known as the Haram-esh Sharif, or "the Noble Sanctuary." A...
In the First Crusade (1095-1102), Christians were called upon to rescue the Holy Land from Islamic rule. Jerusalem was captured by western allies and became an independent kingdom ruled by Raymond IV and Godfrey of Boullion in 1099. This Kingdom of Jerusalem lasted until 1187 when the city was retaken by Saladin(1137-1193). Many of the churches and...
Jerusalem remains the historic center of three major religions. This has often fomented tension and sometimes riots. In addition to disagreements over access to sacred space, Jerusalem is also crucial in the historical narratives employed by Jews and Palestinians. In the continuing debates over sovereignty between the Israelis and the Palestinians,...
- Rebecca Denova
Feb 22, 2024 · Jerusalem Through the Ages answers these and other questions as it tells Jerusalem’s story from its beginnings to the Middle Ages. Each chapter focuses on a key moment of transition in the city’s long and turbulent history, enabling readers to experience Jerusalem’s many transformations as it changed hands and populations—Jebusites and Canaanites, Israelites and Judahites, Greeks and ...
- Jodi Magness
Melchizedek, Abraham and Jerusalem. We read in the book of Genesis that Abraham is approached by a mysterious priest of the most high God whose name means “the righteous king.”. In itself, this is intriguing, but it is where he is from that is so interesting to us. He is from Salem, which most scholars identify as an ancient Canaanite city.
Aug 23, 2017 · In 1000 B.C., King David conquered Jerusalem and made it the capital of the Jewish kingdom. His son, Solomon, built the first holy Temple about 40 years later. His son, Solomon, built the first ...
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Jerusalem, in stone and imagination, is unique as a holy city of the world's three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The most relevant primary texts describing the physical features of Jerusalem's cities include the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, Roman and Late Antique Jewish sources and Christian writings.
