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

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3.8
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A “masterful” history of the city and its holy wars past and present, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Constantine’s Sword (The Boston Globe).
 
How did this ancient Middle Eastern city become a transcendent fantasy that ignites religious fervor unlike anywhere else on earth? Jerusalem, Jerusalem journeys through centuries of conflict among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, right up to the present-day Israeli-Palestinian struggle—with fascinating examinations of how the idea of the holy city has shaped not just the region’s history but the world’s.
 
 

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3.8
4 reviews
Charles Moffett
May 6, 2013
Carroll's "Jerusalem, Jerusalem," has so much of the current socio-political and religious issues that bring to light the three "main monotheism's," of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity that are playing out even as I type this. Carroll begins with a well written introduction which is actually the first chapter played out within four subcategories. In it he develops the main theme - giving ourselves up to our religions via an all encompassing 'sacrifice' that may or may not be the best for us to consider. These three religions are a triangulation of the conceptual aspect of God and how the faithful, being the fourth point, squares our own personal story within the scriptures of the Bible. A Christian, himself, Carroll does not hold back on his criticism of that book. And the same goes for the books of the other two faiths, the Quran and the Torah (including the precepts of the Talmud). His critique works in such that anyone who finishes "Jerusalem, Jerusalem" will be the better for it. Neither a work of liberalism or conservative advocacy, Carroll simply tells us how things interpretively were, are going, and possible could be...faith or not.
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About the author

James Carroll was raised in Washington, D.C., and ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1969. He served as a chaplain at Boston University from 1969 to 1974, then left the priesthood to become a writer. A distinguished scholar- in-residence at Suffolk University, he is a columnist for the Boston Globe and a regular contributor to the Daily Beast. His critically admired books include Practicing Catholic, the National Book Award–winning An American Requiem, House of War, which won the first PEN/Galbraith Award, and the New York Times bestseller Constantine’s Sword, now an acclaimed documentary.

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