ID: International Dialogue‚ A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs 3 2013 Review Essay Jerusalem Obscured The Crescent on the Temple: The Dome of the Rock as Image of the Ancient Jewish Sanctuary Pamela Berger. Leiden and Boston: Brill‚ 2012. 393pp. . Curtis Hutt To begin with‚ what is it? In order to answer this question one must‚ of course‚ qualify it by asking—to whom? Pamela Berger in The Crescent on the Temple: The Dome of the Rock as Image of the Ancient Jewish Sanctuary has done a
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was taken in 2007. The Bible‚ the sacred text of Judaism and Christianity‚ can also illustrate these adjectives of space and how they apply to the city of Jerusalem. The earliest literature describing the city of Jerusalem was written by scribes who lived in Jerusalem around 1000-500BCE. This literature was written to promote the kings of Jerusalem‚ the temple of Israel’s god
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Hellenization of Jerusalem. This resulted in the construction of a gymnasium and track. Here‚ the Jews adopted Grecian practices such as exercising in the nude‚ and opening their events with invocations of pagan deities. Later‚ Antiochus replaced Jason with a man called Menelaus‚ who offered to collect higher taxes from the Jews. While Antiochus was busy in Egypt‚ a rumor spread that he had been killed. The displaced high priest‚ Jason‚ rallied troops and made a surprise attack on Jerusalem. Menelaus
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The Dome of the Rock known as Qubbat As-Sakhrah‚ found in Jerusalem‚ was built by the order of Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik between AD 687 and 691. Engineers‚ Raja ibn Haywah‚ a muslim theologian from Beit She’an‚ and Yazid Ibn Salam‚ a non-Arab and a Jerusalem native‚ were tasked to build the Dome of the Rock. Historically‚ it is one of the most iconic monumental buildings in the early Islamic history and is an excellent artistic creation of mankind. It became the symbol of unity of the three monotheistic
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Kraybill Chapter 2 In Kraybill’s book The Upside-Down Kingdom he introduces us to Jesus’ three temptations in the wilderness. Kraybill explores the social‚ political‚ and economic significances of these temptations. He focuses on five key symbols that are connected to Jesus’ temptations; bread‚ devil‚ desert‚ mountain‚ and temple. Each symbol recalls key episodes in the Hebrew history. “The temptation points to a right-side-up kingdom encompassing the three big social institutions of his day: political
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King Saul‚ was first king of Israel he was killed in a battle against the Philistines‚ and then David was chosen as his successor. One of David’s first acts as king was the conquest of the city Jerusalem. He named it the "City of David" and declared it the capital of his kingdom. The choice of Jerusalem despite its various shortcomings which should have made it a horrible decision and most likely led to the city being attacked were its - remoteness from trade routes‚ chronic water shortage‚ unsuitable
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Maysa Dandis Professor Roffel English 200 September 28‚ 2013 The Old City of Jerusalem King Abdullah II once said”I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions”. The old city of Jerusalem represents many of fascinated religious and archeological landmarks. I went there when I was 13 years old. Anyone visited this city certainly he would visit the holy places for Muslims‚ Christians and Jews‚ met people divided in a different uneven quarters‚ taste the most delicious
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protected by the walls built by Egypt to keep the Asiatics out. Unfortunately‚ the Asiatics took over Egypt for the next hundred years. In this time period Jerusalem was a small city state which had not yet developed Judaism. This gave rise to map two that outlined the “club of great powers” in which the New kingdom of Egypt who had Jerusalem was in battle with the empire of Hittites (Dr. Rainbow). However‚ everything soon collapsed due to reasons that are unclear to historians. Moreover‚ Dr. rainbow
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years between 688-691 A.C by an order from (caliph Abd al-Malik Bin Marwan)‚ half a century after Prophet Mohammed (Piece and blessings be upon him) Died. It is located in the area of (Al Haram Al Sharef or temple mount) in Jerusalem (Israel) and it can be seen from all over Jerusalem. The location of dome of the rock is where the Islamic miracle of the night journey (Israa and miraj) took a place and it was built to perpetuate this Islamic miracle‚ as well as compete the churches that time. The dome
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AFRICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY TOWN CAMPUS NAME: NJIHIA MARK ADM NO: 12S03ABT003 DEPARTMENT: UNIVERSITY COMMON COURSES COURSE: UCC 105 OLD TESTAMENT LECTURER: Dr. THUO TASK: DESCRIBE THE HISTORY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT DUE DATE: 28th January‚ 2013 Introduction The Old Testament was written over a wide historical period‚ it describes the relationship of God and the people of Israel before the coming of Jesus. To make it easy to explain the history in the Old Testament‚ I have seen
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