Jerusalem: City of God, City of Fire

by F.E. Peters

PORTABLE PROFESSOR™ is a series of exciting and informative lectures recorded by some of today's most renowned university and college professors. Each course introduces listeners to fascinating, and sometimes startling, insights into the intellectual forces that shape our understanding of the world. Each package includes 14 riveting lectures presented by notable professors as well as a book-length course guide.

For countless generations, people of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths have considered the city of Jerusalem the holiest of places. In this fascinating course about the social and religious history of Jerusalem, Professor F.E. Peters explains how and why the spiritual epicenter of the Abrahamic faiths has repeatedly been the locus of epic historic forces over the course of some four thousand years of existence.

COURSE LECTURES

Holy Places, Holy City The City of the Great King The Fall and Restoration of Jerusalem Jews and Greeks in Jerusalem The Jerusalem of Jesus The Great Wars (66-135 c.e.) The "Mother of All the Churches" (325-635 c.e.) The Distant Shrine: The Muslims come to Jerusalem The Crusades Jerusalem Liberated Piety and Polemic: The Age of Pilgrimage Travelers, Tourists, and Pilgrims Through New Eyes: Jerusalem and the Moderns From Then to Now: The Holy Places in the Present Age

Audio CD

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Mir · Rating 4 out of 5]

an academic account and discussion of what, where and how jeruselam is an came to be....it is well done, researched and technical. No emotional leaps and conclusions...