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Jerusalem: The Biography
Book by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Jerusalem: The Biography is a 2011 bestselling[1][2] non-fiction book by British popular historian and writer Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Synopsis
Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime's study, Montefiore illustrates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a historical chronicle of the city of Jerusalem.[3]
Montefiore chose to organize Jerusalem chronologically, stretching it from King David's establishment of the city as his capital (the Proto-Canaanite and Canaanite-Egyptian periods are briefly mentioned) to the 1967 Six-Day War, with an epilogue pondering on more recent events.
In the introduction, the author explains that "it is only by chronological narrative that one avoids the temptation to see the past through the obsessions of the present."[4]
The author narrates the history of Jerusalem as the cent