The Oxford illustrated history of the Holy Land /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	vi, 402 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Historical geography. Palestine -- History. Palestine -- Historical geography. Middle East -- Palestine. History.
Format:	Map Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11741542

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Varying Form of Title:	Illustrated history of the Holy Land History of the Holy Land
Other authors / contributors:	Hoyland, Robert G., 1966- editor. Williamson, H. G. M. (Hugh Godfrey Maturin), 1947- editor.
ISBN:	019872439X 9780198724391
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-385) and index.
Summary:	This book covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and relates the familiar stories of the sacred texts with the fruits of modern scholarship. Beginning with the origins of the people who became the Israel of the Bible, it follows the course of the ensuing millennia down to the time when the Ottoman Empire succumbed to British and French rule at the end of the First World War. Parts of the story, especially as known from the Bible, will be widely familiar. Less familiar are the ways in which modern research, both from archaeology and from other ancient sources, sometimes modify this story historically. Better understanding, however, enables us to appreciate crucial chapters in the story of the Holy Land, such as how and why Judaism developed in the way that it did from the earlier sovereign states of Israel and Judah and the historical circumstances in which Christianity emerged from its Jewish cradle. Later parts of the story are vital not only for the history of Islam and its relationships with the two older religions, but also for the development of pilgrimage and religious tourism, as well as the notions of sacred space and of holy books with which we are still familiar today. From the time of Napoleon on, European powers came increasingly to develop both cultural and political interest in the region, culminating in the British and French conquests which carved out the modern states of the Middle East.

Table of Contents:

List of Maps
Introduction
1. The Birth of Israel
2. Iron Age: Tribes to Monarchy
3. Israel and Judah, c.931-587 bce
4. Babylonian Exile and Restoration, 587-325 bce
5. The Hellenistic and Roman Era
6. A Christian Holy Land, 284-638 ce
7. The Coming of Islam
8. The Holy Land in the Crusader and Ayyubid Periods, 1099-1250
9. The Holy Land from the Mamluk Sultanate to the Ottoman Empire, 1260-1799
10. From Napoleon to Allenby: The Holy Land and the Wider Middle East
11. Pilgrimage
12. Sacred Spaces and Holy Places
13. Scripture and the Holy Land
Further Reading
Index
Picture Acknowledgements

The Oxford illustrated history of the Holy Land /

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