Omar by Jerusalem – Bible Archeology Society

Jerusalem during the age: from its beginning to the Crusades

By Judy Magnus
. . 39.99 (Hardcover),. 27.99 (eBook)

Reviewed by Simon Gibson

Maintaining the always spreading body of the scholarship on ancient Jerusalem has become a strong task, even for someone like himself who specializes in the history of the city’s archeology. As a result, anyone who writes the same volume of archaeological study of Jerusalem, which is comprehensive and fearless to engage in interpretation. It is trying to make it impossible. Nevertheless, this is what Judy Magnus has acquired. It is a remarkable stimulus, well -written and informative book. It can be practically impossible to copy such a feat. Anyone who receives a copy should take a treasure, as it can be the last of its kind.

I Through Jerusalem ageMagnus, one of the leading archaeologists digging in Israel today, covers a vast array of material culture affiliated to Jerusalem, which has reached organized scientific works released today with the outcome of the early excavations in the 19th century (many results are still mentioned in the book). To deploy what we know about the city. To do what we know. From its early start to the Middle Ages, the history of Magnus has been covered by about 8,000 years in the Middle Ages. And she does this with diligence and remarkable insights, which contain 82 pages of notes and 56 pages of booklets. Yet she does not lose the student or the common reader, who cannot be compelled by the Minutes of academic debates.

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The book began with the introduction of Tipography and Source, followed by a chapter on some of the important seekers of Jerusalem from the 19th century. The magnesis then move forward to examine archaeological discoveries of every historical period (and sometimes unspecified) archaeological discoveries. Pabsite, Israeli, Judahite, Post Exercing (Persian), Hasmunin, Heroden, Roman, Byzantine, early Islamic and Crusader are individual chapters for Jerusalem. In an article, the author briefly touched British compulsory Jerusalem.

Magni naturally crosses historical periods and articles on which it has worked on its vast field-especially the Grecoo Roman and Byzantine era. Best, and full of insights, talked about its third wall of Jerusalem and the northern suburbs of the city, at the time of Elijah Capitolina – on the ruins of the Roman Colony Jerusalem.^<

However, most notable, Magnes, together with a well -written story to his predecessors, goes beyond his predecessors in a balanced process of providing the latest scholarship. In comparison, the famous historian Simon Sebig Montefaur Jerusalem: Biography – Catherena Galor and Hansolph Blide Horne bravely tried to address them again Archeology of Jerusalem: from origin to the Ottomans – In this regard, Max Kichler’s Jerusalem: ion Handbach & Studian Reserved Zorous Helgen Studit – On the other hand, the accessible of Andrew Luller was written Under Jerusalem –

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After that it is easy to see the extraordinary value of this new book. In the future, I expect similar efforts to focus rapidly on specific historical periods and special articles, while the mainstream posts on ancient Jerusalem will move towards the most common and explanatory, which forms the specific views and interests of their individual authors. Judy Magnus has done his work with admirable determination and discrimination, though, as she recognizes, “Jerusalem is so rich in the remains, so incredibly layered and complex, that it is impossible to know everything about it.” I will take my copy treasure.

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* See Han Esel, “Elijah Capitolina: Jerusalem no more,” RepetitiveNovember/December 1997.

Simon Gibson North Carolina University is a professor of history at Charlotte. He shares the excavation of Mount Zion in Jerusalem.