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Jerusalem and the Holy Land (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

by DK Publishing from DK Travel

Three-dimensional cutaway illustrations and floor plans of key landmarks complement these richly illustrated, fully updated travel handbooks that also include enhanced maps, street-by-street guides, background information on a host of popular sights, and an expanded traveler s survival guide providing tips on hotels, restaurants, local customs, transportation, medical services, museums, entertainment, and more. Author: DK PublishingFormat: 328 pages, Paperback Publisher: DK Travel (August 20, 2007) ISBN: 978-0756628772

Streetwise Jerusalem Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Jerusalem, Israel - Folding pocket size travel map

by Streetwise Maps from Streetwise Maps

Folded, laminated, indexed, street map of Jerusalem, showing all streets, parks, and railways at a scale of 1:17,000. Legend includes cultural sites, hotels, places of interest, public transportation routes, and more. Also includes inset for the Old City. Legend is in English.

Travel Israel - Illustrated Guide, Phrasebook and Maps. Incl: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, & more. Bonus: FREE Sudoku Puzzles & "The Wars of the Jews" by Flavius Josephus (Mobi Travel)

by MobileReference from MobileReference

This illustrated Travel Guide is designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. Articles feature information about attractions, landmarks, districts, transportation, cultural venues, dining, history and much more. Addresses, telephones, hours of operation and admissions information are included. The guide is complimented by clearly marked maps that are linked to city attractions. An interlinked phrasebook and a pronunciation guide are also included.

Table of Contents:

Essentials: Hebrew Phrasebook | Buy | Eat | Drink | Stay Safe | Stay healthy | Electricity | Contact | Units Conversion

1. Israel: Transportation | History | Climate | Physical Geography | Human Geography | Government | Military | Economy | Population | Culture | Holidays | Talk | Cities | Regions | Other Destinations | Mediterranean Sea | Itinerary

2. Maps: Israel | Tel Aviv | Haifa | Golan Heights | Galilee | Jerusalem: City | East Jerusalem | Old City | Old City Scheme | Via Dolorosa Route

3. Jerusalem: History | Geography | Culture | Religion | Transport | Eat | Drink | Sleep | Buy | Stay safe | Contact | Night Life | Neighbourhoods | Landmarks: Buildings, Sites & Streets | Gates | Churches | Mosques | Synagogues | Museums | Itinerary

4. Tel Aviv: Orientation | By Area | Streets & Squares | Transport | History | Culture | Museums | Architecture | Landmarks | Attractions | Eat | Drink | Buy | Sleep | Stay Safe

5. Haifa: History | Transport | Landmarks | Museums | Tourist Info

6. North: Akko | Belvoir Castle | Beth Shean Valley | Bet She'an | Bethsaida | Cana | Capernaum | Carmel Range | Galilee | Golan heights | Hamat Gader | Hazor | Jezreel Valley | Jordan River | Megiddo | Mount Arbel | Mount of Beatitudes | Mount Hermon | Mount Tabor | Kursi | Nahariya | Nazareth | Nimrod Fortress | Rosh Haniqra | Safed | Sea of Galilee | Tabgha | Tiberias | Zippori | Itinerary

7. Center: Sharon | Binyamina | Caesarea | Caesarea Palaestina | Herzliya | Netanya | Yarqon River

8. South: Arad | Avdat | Beer Sheva | Dead Sea | Eilat | Ein Gedi | Judean Desert | Masada | Mitzpe Ramon | Negev | Qumran | Red Sea | Timna Valley Park

9. The Territories: West Bank | Gaza | Jericho | Bethlehem

10. Kibbutz: History | Future | List of Kibbutzim

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Experience Jerusalem: a travel guide (2010)

by Dolphin Books from Dolphin Books

This ebook is a handy and usable travel guide to Jerusalem. It was adapted for the Kindle from wikitravel.org*, which was named by Time magazine as one of the 50 best websites of 2008. This ebook has been prepared by Dolphin books specifically for the Amazon Kindle, and includes careful formatting and a hyperlinked table of contents.

This ebook contains no advertising. Dolphin books is not paid to endorse any products or services.

Among other things, this guide provides:

information about travelling to from and within Jerusalem

useful telephone numbers

lists of events, landmarks, museums, and things to do

information on shopping, dining, drinking, and hotels

*wikitravel.org does not endorse this ebook nor any other product.

At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for Hope with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land

by Yossi K. Halevi from Harper Perennial

Yossi Klein Halevi, born in America and now an Israeli citizen, embarked on a spiritual quest in order to appreciate the religious dimensions of conflicts in the Middle East. Beginning in 1998, he undertook "an attempt at religious empathy" in order "to test whether faith could be a means of healing rather than intensifying the conflicts in this land." Halevi, author of the critically acclaimed Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist, chose "to pray and meditate with my Christian and Muslim fellow believers," as "a conscious refutation of the way we religious people of different faiths have always judged each other--by what we believe about God, rather than how we experience God's presence." The holy days of each religion form the structure of At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden, and Halevi's encounters with Sufi dervishes, Muslim sheiks, monks, nuns, and laypeople are entertaining, poignant, and sometimes fearsome. The stories do not separate "spirituality" from "politics"--or history, psychology, or theology. His commitment to describing an integrated experience of the many aspects of religious life helps to make the book a successful exercise in empathy, and a book of lasting literary value. --Michael Joseph Gross

In At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden, Yossi Klein HalevÍ describes his unprecedented and extraordinary spiritual journey to discover, as a religious Israeli Jew, a common spiritual language with his Christian and Muslim neighbors in the Holy Land.

Could religion be a source of unity? wondered Halevi. To find the answer, he began a two-year exploration of the devotional life of Christianity and Islam. He followed their holiday cycles, befriended Christian monastics and Islamic mystics, and joined them in prayer in monasteries and mosques -- searching for wisdom and holiness in places that are usually off-limits to outsiders of other faiths.

With a new introduction relating to Sept. 11th, Halevi chronicles the difficulty of overcoming obstacles -- theological, political, historical, and psychological -- that separate believers of the three monotheistic faiths. And he introduces a dynamic range of fascinating individuals attempting to reconcile the dichotomous heart of this sacred place -- a struggle central to Israel, but which resonates for us all.

The Temple of Jerusalem

by Simon Goldhill from Harvard University Press

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It was destroyed nearly 2000 years ago, and yet the Temple of Jerusalem--cultural memory, symbol, and site--remains one of the most powerful, and most contested, buildings in the world. This glorious structure, imagined and re-imagined, reconsidered and reinterpreted again and again over two millennia, emerges in all its historical, cultural, and religious significance in Simon Goldhill's account.

Built by Herod on a scale that is still staggering--on an earth and rock platform 144,000 square meters in area and 32 meters high--and destroyed by the Roman emperor Titus 90 years later, in 70 A.D., the Temple has become the world's most potent symbol of the human search for a lost ideal, an image of greatness. Goldhill travels across cultural and temporal boundaries to convey the full extent of the Temple's impact on religious, artistic, and scholarly imaginations. Through biblical stories and ancient texts, rabbinical writings, archaeological records, and modern accounts, he traces the Temple's shifting significance for Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

A complex and engaging history of a singular locus of the imagination--a site of longing for the Jews; a central metaphor of Christian thought; an icon for Muslims: the Dome of the Rock--The Temple of Jerusalem also offers unique insight into where Judaism, Christianity, and Islam differ in interpreting their shared inheritance. It is a story that, from the Crusades onward, has helped form the modern political world.

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Jerusalem: City of Longing

by Simon Goldhill from Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Jerusalem is the site of some of the most famous religious monuments in the world, from the Dome of the Rock to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Western Wall of the Temple. Since the nineteenth century, the city has been a premier tourist destination, not least because of the countless religious pilgrims from the three Abrahamic faiths.

But Jerusalem is more than a tourist site—it is a city where every square mile is layered with historical significance, religious intensity, and extraordinary stories. It is a city rebuilt by each ruling Empire in its own way: the Jews, the Romans, the Christians, the Muslims, and for the past sixty years, the modern Israelis. What makes Jerusalem so unique is the heady mix, in one place, of centuries of passion and scandal, kingdom-threatening wars and petty squabbles, architectural magnificence and bizarre relics, spiritual longing and political cruelty. It is a history marked by three great forces: religion, war, and monumentality.

In this book, Simon Goldhill takes on this peculiar archaeology of human imagination, hope, and disaster to provide a tour through the history of this most image-filled and ideology-laden city—from the bedrock of the Old City to the towering roofs of the Holy Sepulchre. Along the way, we discover through layers of buried and exposed memories—the long history, the forgotten stories, and the lesser-known aspects of contemporary politics that continue to make Jerusalem one of the most embattled cities in the world.

(20080415)

The Rough Guide to Jerusalem (Rough Guides)

by Daniel Jacobs from Rough Guides

"The Rough Guide to Jerusalem' is the ultimate travel guide with clear maps and detailed coverage of all the best attractions the holy city has to offer. Find practical advice on what to see and do in Jerusalem whilst relying on up-to-date descriptions of the best Jerusalem hotels, restaurants, bars, cafes and shops from bare-bones budget to lap-of-luxury deluxe. "The Rough Guide to Jerusalem" gets under the skin of the city, with expert background on everything from Jerusalem's history to the political controversies surrounding it. The guide features a chapter on each of the Old City's four traditional quarters with explanations of all Jerusalem's holy sites, historical buildings and contentious hotspots. Travellers wanting to venture out into Israel or the West Bank will find a section on excursions including places with biblical resonance such as Bethlehem, Hebron, Jericho, the Dead Sea as well as Israel's brash and exciting commercial capital, Tel Aviv. Make the most of Your time with "The Rough Guide to Jerusalem".

Jewish Journeys in Jerusalem: A Tourist Guide

by Jay Levinson from Key Publishing House Inc

Jewish Journeys in Jerusalem: A Tourist's Guide is a travel guide designed to give tourists a Jewish experience when visiting the city. The book covers interesting background about popular sites and fascinating details about lesser-known places. How was the Talmudic era grave of Nicanor found? Which places give the best views of the Temple Mount? Where can you walk on the roof of the Old City? How did the Geula neighborhood get its name? Whether this is your first trip to Jerusalem or one of many, this book is bound to greatly enhance your understanding and appreciation of the city.

Jerusalem: A History of the Holiest City as seen Through the Struggles of Jews, Christians, and Muslims

by Thomas A. Idinopulos from Ivan R. Dee, Publisher

This majestic history of Jerusalem is the first to bring together in a single volume the experiences of the three great religions in the holy city from their ancient beginnings to the present.