01663cim a2200289 4500 90654110 TxGeo 20111114120000.0 110516s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781409113782 1409113787 TxGeo Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965- Jerusalem [cd] : the biography / Simon Sebag Montefiore. Abridged. [U.K.] : Orion Audiobooks, 2011. ©2011. 9 sound discs (11 hr., 50 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Read by Andrew Sachs. Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgment Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime's study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice -- in heaven and on earth. - Publisher. 20111114. Jerusalem History. Audiobooks. Compact discs. Sachs, Andrew. QS5