The Christian Topography Of Early Islamic Jerusalem
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| Author | : Rodney Aist |
| Publisher | : Brepols Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
The Christian Topography of Early Islamic Jerusalem: The Evidence of Willibald of Eichstatt (700-787 CE) is an analysis of Willibald's description of Jerusalem for the year 724-6, as contained in Hugeburc's Vita Willibaldi, a text composed in Heidenheim (Germany) in 778. The work makes a fresh examination of the Christian landscape of Early Islamic Jerusalem, while describing various aspects of the Byzantine and Crusader city. Willibald's account of the Holy City includes the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Church of Holy Sion, the pool of Bethesda, the Church of St Mary, the Church of the Agony and the Church of the Ascension. Particular attention is given to the monument of the Miraculous Healing (the legend of the Holy Cross), the portico of Solomon, the Jephonias Monument (the Dormition of Mary) and the Jerusalem circuit. At the same time, the work explores the religious imagination of Willibald, including his perceptions of the holy sites, his image of Jerusalem and his understanding of the Christian life. Willibald's image of the city as a far and distant place is supported by his attention to personal hardships and to his interactions with the 'pagan Saracens', while embedded within the tales of his oriental travels is his vision of the Christian life - whereas Willibald viewed the earthly life as a laborious journey, the Christian life was one of faithful perseverance. The work makes a significant contribution to two fields of study: the commemorative topography of Jerusalem and the Anglo-Saxon, or Boniface, mission in Germany.
| Author | : Rodney Aist |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9782503559490 |
| Author | : Lawrence Nees |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2015-09-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004302077 |
Through its material remains, Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem analyzes several overlooked aspects of the earliest decades of Islamic presence in Jerusalem, during the seventh century CE. Focusing on the Haram al-Sharif, also known as the Temple Mount, Lawrence Nees provides the first sustained study of the Dome of the Chain, a remarkable eleven-sided building standing beside the slightly later Dome of the Rock, and the first study of the meaning of the columns and column capitals with figures of eagles in the Dome of the Rock. He also provides a new interpretation of the earliest mosque in Jerusalem, the Haram as a whole, with the sacred Rock at its center.
| Author | : Kathryn Blair Moore |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 439 |
| Release | : 2017-02-27 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1107139082 |
Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.
| Author | : Jodi Magness |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 641 |
| Release | : 2024 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0190937807 |
In this broad yet detailed account of one of the world's oldest, holiest, and most contested cities, leading expert Jodi Magness incorporates the most recent archaeological discoveries and original research to weave an authoritative history of Jerusalem's ancient and medieval periods.
| Author | : Rodney Aist |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2020-08-28 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1725255286 |
A pilgrim spirituality for Holy Land travel, Jerusalem Bound resources the Christian traveler with biblical, historical, and contemporary images of the pilgrim life. Integrating historical sources, on-the-ground experience, and the voices of global pilgrims, Jerusalem Bound presents a fresh approach to pilgrimage, explores pilgrim identity and the Holy Land experience, offers ideas for Holy Land travel, and encourages pilgrims to focus upon the Other as much as themselves. Unique among Holy Land resources, Jerusalem Bound discusses material that is seldom addressed on a Holy Land journey: the motives of Holy Land pilgrims, the history of the Christian Holy Land, understanding the holy sites, pilgrim practices, material objects, and the challenges of Holy Land pilgrimage. Emphasizing the incarnational nature of lived experience, the book encourages pilgrims to derive meaning in both the highs and lows of religious travel. Attentive to the transformational nature of pilgrimage, Jerusalem Bound is ultimately interested in Christian formation and the aftermath of the Holy Land journey.
| Author | : Jerome Murphy-O'Connor |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2012-02-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199642028 |
Surveys the history, archaeology, and theology of Jerusalem, focusing on issues like the location of important buildings and events in the life of Jesus that took place in Jerusalem.
| Author | : Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 749 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Cities and towns, Ancient |
| ISBN | : 0521190746 |
The most comprehensive account yet of the human past from prehistory to the present.
| Author | : Scott Fitzgerald Johnson |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1294 |
| Release | : 2015-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 019027753X |
The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These events are set in the context of widespread literary, artistic, cultural, and religious change during the period. The geographical scope of this Handbook is unparalleled among comparable surveys of Late Antiquity; Arabia, Egypt, Central Asia, and the Balkans all receive dedicated treatments, while the scope extends to the western kingdoms, and North Africa in the West. Furthermore, from economic theory and slavery to Greek and Latin poetry, Syriac and Coptic literature, sites of religious devotion, and many others, this Handbook covers a wide range of topics that will appeal to scholars from a diverse array of disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity engages the perennially valuable questions about the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval, while providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late Antiquity itself.
| Author | : Gideon Avni |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 441 |
| Release | : 2014-01-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0191507342 |
Using a comprehensive evaluation of recent archaeological findings, Avni addresses the transformation of local societies in Palestine and Jordan between the sixth and eleventh centuries AD. Arguing that these archaeological findings provide a reliable, though complex, picture, Avni illustrates how the Byzantine-Islamic transition was a much slower and gradual process than previously thought, and that it involved regional variability, different types of populations, and diverse settlement patterns. Based on the results of hundreds of excavations, including Avni's own surveys and excavations in the Negev, Beth Guvrin, Jerusalem, and Ramla, the volume reconstructs patterns of continuity and change in settlements during this turbulent period, evaluating the process of change in a dynamic multicultural society and showing that the coming of Islam had no direct effect on settlement patterns and material culture of the local population. The change in settlement, stemming from internal processes rather than from external political powers, culminated gradually during the Early Islamic period. However, the process of Islamization was slow, and by the eve of the Crusader period Christianity still had an overwhelming majority in Palestine and Jordan.
