Balfour Solomon's Temple

Myth, Conflict, and Faith
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-27510-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten, E-Book

A highly original architectural history of Solomon's Templeand Islam's Dome of the Rock that doubles as a social andcultural history of the region
* The most extensive study of the interrelated history of twomonuments, Solomon's Temple and The Dome of the Rock, drawingon an exhaustive review of all the visual and textual evidence
* Relayed as a gripping narrative, allowing readers to re-enterand experience the emotions and the visceral reality of the majorevents in its history
* Integrates illustration with the text to offer a highlydetailed and accurate portrait of the major structures and figuresinvolved in the history of the temple
* Opens up a fascinating line of questioning into theconventional interpretation of events, particularly Christ'sactions in the Temple
* Reproduces rarely seen detailed drawings of the subterraneanpassages beneath Temple Mount as part of the British survey in the19th century

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balfour, Alan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures ix
List of Plates xii
Prologue 1
1 Solomon's Temple 6
The Ark of the Covenant 8
King David 19
The Temple of Solomon 21
Nebuchadnezzar II 28
2 Herod 37
The Maccabeans 41
Pompey 43
Herod 45
Herod Demolishes the Second Temple 48
The Third Temple 51
The Royal Portico 57
3 ''Not . . . one stone upon another'' 65
Moneychangers 68
Paul 72
The Temple Destroyed 74
4 The Holy Sepulcher 88
Hadrian and Aelia Capitolina 88
Constantine 93
The Plague 103
The Fall of Rome 105
Hagia Sophia 107
Madaba 110
vi Contents
The Persian War 111
5 Dome of the Rock 117
Muhammad and the Fall of Jerusalem 122
Umar in Jerusalem 123
The Dome of the Rock 129
The Rock 137
6 Templum Domini 146
The Jews Return 149
The First Crusade 154
Crusader Jerusalem 158
Templum Domini 160
The Templars in the Palace of Solomon 163
Saladin 167
7 Recreating the Temple 175
In the Imagination of Priests 178
The Temple in the Popular Imagination 199
Return to Mount Moriah 205
8 Jerusalem 217
Views 217
Maps 225
British Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem 234
The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) 240
Jerusalem and World War I 247
9 Al-Haram Al-Sharif 254
The Path to Conflict 254
Jerusalem Under Transjordan 257
An Naksah, The Six Day War 259
Liberation of Temple Mount 260
Archeology and the Western Wall 263
The Burning of Al-Aqsa Mosque 264
Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount 266
The Rabbi's Tunnel 269
Continual Provocation 271
Rabbi's Tunnel Revisited 275
Camp David Summit 276
The Second Intifada 277
Contents vii
Epilogue 282
Acknowledgments, Sources, and Methods 290
Index 295

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Balfour is Professor and Dean of the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech. Formerly he has served as dean of Schools of Architecture in Texas and New York and was chairman of the Architectural Association in London. His writings include Creating a Scottish Parliament and books on three world cities Shanghai, New York, and Berlin. He has received numerous awards, including the Topaz Medal, the highest recognition given in North America to an educator in architecture.