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Jerusalem The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement 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-Pales...
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Honestly with Bari Weiss
Described as a biography of a city spanning 3,000 years of history, this book was noted as a must-read that had sold over a million copies and was recently reissued in paperback.
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But Jerusalem is a biography of a city--a city, as he writes, that is "the house of the one God, the capital of two peoples, the temple of three religions, and the only city to exist twice in heaven a...
— Episode: Simon Sebag Montefiore: History Is Not O...
Episode: Simon Sebag Montefiore: History Is Not Over
Described as a biography of a city spanning 3,000 years of history, this book was noted as a must-read that had sold over a million copies and was recently reissued in paperback.
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But Jerusalem is a biography of a city--a city, as he writes, that is "the house of the one God, the capital of two peoples, the temple of three religions, and the only city to exist twice in heaven and on earth."
It has sold more than a million copies, many of them in China, which we're going to learn about. And it has just been reissued in paperback.
The romantic poet William Blake wrote the dramatic poem Jerusalem, inspired by the legend of Joseph of Arimathea visiting Glastonbury, in the early 1800s. It is now a familiar inspirational hymn, some have even suggested it as a replacement for the current UK national anthem.
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And did those feet in ancient time walk upon England's mountains green, and was the holy Lamb of God on England's pleasant pastures seen?
— Episode: The Sleepy History and Legends of Glasto...
Episode: The Sleepy History and Legends of Glastonbury
The romantic poet William Blake wrote the dramatic poem Jerusalem, inspired by the legend of Joseph of Arimathea visiting Glastonbury, in the early 1800s. It is now a familiar inspirational hymn, some have even suggested it as a replacement for the current UK national anthem.
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And did those feet in ancient time walk upon England's mountains green, and was the holy Lamb of God on England's pleasant pastures seen?
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