Daily Life in Ancient and Modern Jerusalem

Daily Life in Ancient and Modern Jerusalem
Author: Diane Slavik
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780822532187

Explores everyday life in Jerusalem, from the time of the city's founding through Biblical times and the Middle Ages up to the present.

Daily Life in Ancient and Modern Cairo

Daily Life in Ancient and Modern Cairo
Author:
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780822532217

Explores daily life in the city of Cairo, from the time of its earliest settlement around 3000 B.C. through the Dynasty of Saladin and the Ottoman Turk rule up to modern times.

Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem

Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem
Author: John Woodland Welch
Publisher: Maxwell Institute
Total Pages: 698
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:

Imagine Jerusalem around 600 BC, the world of Lehi, Sariah, Laban, Zoram, Josiah, and Jeremiah. How did people live? What motivated them? And what eventually destroyed their city? The answers to such questions foster better understanding of the prophetic words of Lehi, Nephi, and Jacob in the Book of Mormon. Much of that era was lost forever when Jerusalem met its prophesied fate and was destroyed by the Babylonians. The Temple of Solomon and the city walls were torn down, buildings burned, treasuries looted, people killed or deported, records lost or destroyed, and certain religious beliefs changed or extinguished. Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem offers modern readers a vivid look at revealing events in a crucial quarter century in world history.

Israel Is Real

Israel Is Real
Author: Rich Cohen
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2009-07-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1429930578

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER In AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a handful of visionaries saved Judaism by reinventing it, taking what had been a national religion and turning it into an idea. Whenever a Jew studied—wherever he was—he would be in the holy city, and his faith preserved. But in our own time, Zionists have turned the book back into a temple, and unlike an idea, a temple can be destroyed. With exuberance, humor, and real scholarship, Rich Cohen's Israel is Real offers "a serious attempt by a gifted storyteller to enliven and elucidate Jewish religious, cultural, and political history . . . A powerful narrative" (Los Angeles Times).