Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City (Unabridged)
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2.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
A spellbinding history of the hidden world below the Holy City—a saga of biblical treasures, intrepid explorers, and political upheaval
“A sweeping tale of archaeological exploits and their cultural and political consequences told with a historian’s penchant for detail and a journalist’s flair for narration.”
—Washington Post
In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground, he discovered an ancient grave that, he claimed, belonged to an Old Testament queen. News of his find ricocheted around the world, evoking awe and envy alike, and inspiring others to explore Jerusalem’s storied past.
In the century and a half since the Frenchman broke ground, Jerusalem has drawn a global cast of fortune seekers and missionaries, archaeologists and zealots, all of them eager to extract the biblical past from beneath the city’s streets and shrines. Their efforts have had profound effects, not only on our understanding of Jerusalem’s history, but on its hotly disputed present. The quest to retrieve ancient Jewish heritage has sparked bloody riots and thwarted international peace agreements. It has served as a cudgel, a way to stake a claim to the most contested city on the planet. Today, the earth below Jerusalem remains a battleground in the struggle to control the city above.
Under Jerusalem takes readers into the tombs, tunnels, and trenches of the Holy City. It brings to life the indelible characters who have investigated this subterranean landscape. With clarity and verve, acclaimed journalist Andrew Lawler reveals how their pursuit has not only defined the conflict over modern Jerusalem, but could provide a map for two peoples and three faiths to peacefully coexist.
Customer Reviews
Not History But Arrogant Fiction
This author seems to be a Muslim or at least a closet one. It appears he hates Jews and their history. He’s ignorant of the Old Testament of key factors as the Abrahamic Covenant refreshed with Issac and Jacob that God promised the land and a nation to the Jews. His fiction about archeology and details of events I take as writing creativity, his misunderstanding and ignorance of Biblical truth. I’ve studied and thus author puts down the British, Americans, Westerners, and elevates the Arab occupiers as the real legitimate possessors of the land just justify his fiction farther; but illuminates his ignorance by what he writes and writes in boring details his version of events, his arrogant judgments on the Jews and of course the Arabs are innocent victims of historical Jewish aggression, lies, manipulation and abusive just selfish Jews, and insults the Hebrew people. This book is a holocaust of crimes against truth; crimes of disrespect of history and God’s plan of the ages; ignorance just pips out in the disgusting fiction, it’s not historical.
I’m sorry it’s a waste of money by any educated reader, especially any true Christian of Hebrew. This writer demonizes Jews and Evangelical Christians, Catholics, but he’s correct about one group, the Crusaders, their crimes reached to the heavens.
It’s much ado about nothing that is true; and really a fabricated historical and corrupt dark boring fiction, full of lies, lies and more lies.
This is by far one of the worst book I’ve ever endured read as it lacks integrity from the start as an author who disturbs me with his flagrant arrogant account of history; denies God’s hand on the chosen people and the Apple orchid eye. He denigrates their history. As a well educated and informed student of the Scriptures, theology and historical events. this book is rubbish, a wasted $20, and its not worth of the the narration or the paper it’s printed on.
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