Format:
Book
Author:
Blincoe, Nicholas, author.
Title:
Bethlehem : biography of a town / Nicholas Blincoe.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Nation Books, 2017.
©2017
Description:
viii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:
"Bethlehem is so suffused with history and myth that it feels like an unreal city, even to the people who call it home. For many, Bethlehem remains the little town at the edge of the desert described in Biblical accounts. Today, the city is hemmed in by a wall and surrounded by forty-one Israeli settlements and hostile settlers and soldiers. Nicholas Blincoe tells the town's history through the visceral experience of living there, taking readers through its stone streets and desert wadis, its monasteries, aqueducts, and orchards to show the city from every angle and era. His portrait of Bethlehem sheds light on one of the world's most intractable political problems, and he maintains that if the long thread winding back to the city's ancient past is severed, the chances of an end to the Palestine-Israel conflict will be lost with it."--Jacket flap.
Subjects:
Bible. New Testament -- Geography.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Bethlehem -- History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-247) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The Christmas pudding -- Nomads and lovers: from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age -- Scent, spice, and chemicals: the Iron Age -- Bethlehem and Christ: the Classical Age -- Helena's church: Christian Rome -- The Emperor's new church: Byzantium -- Traders to crusaders: the Islamic conquest to the crusader town -- Mamluks and Ottomans: thirteenth to nineteenth century -- The British: the Victorian Age to the Second World War -- Jordan: 1948-1967 -- Israel: from 1967 to Oslo -- Palestine: after Oslo -- The future for the settlers -- The future for Bethlehem.
ISBN:
9781568585833
1568585837
9781568585833
1568585837
Other Number:
975486261
System Availability:
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Current Holds:
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Control Number:
698943
Call Number:
956.942 Blincoe
Course Reserves:
0
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