Jerusalem, Jerusalem : How The Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World

Jerusalem, Jerusalem : How The Ancient City Ignited Our Modern WorldJames Carroll's urgent, masterly Jerusalem, Jerusalem uncovers the ways in which the ancient city became a transcendent fantasy that ignites religious fervor unlike anywhere else on earth. That fervor animates American history as much as it does the Middle East, in the present as deeply as in the past. In Carroll's provocative reading of the deep past, the Bible came into being as an act of resistance to the violence that threatened Jerusalem from the

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