Jerusalem

SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE is a historian of Russia and the Middle East. Catherine the Great and Potemkin was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. Young Stalin won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award, and le Grande Prix de la biographie politique. Jerusalem: The Biography was a worldwide best seller. Montefiore’s books are published in more than forty languages. He is the author of the novels Sashenka and One Night in Winter, which won the Paddy Power Political Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2014. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Dr. Montefiore graduated from Cambridge University, where he received his PhD. He lives in London.

出版者:Weidenfeld & Nicolson

作者:Simon Sebag Montefiore

页数:768

出版时间:2012-3-1

价格:USD 16.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781780220253

图书标签:历史宗教文化耶路撒冷Jerusalem英文原版history英国

Jerusalem is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the “center of the world” and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem’s biography is told through the wars, love affairs, and revelations of the men and women who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Lincoln, Rasputin, Lawrence of Arabia and Moshe Dayan.

In this masterful narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore brings the holy city to life and draws on the latest scholarship, his own family history, and a lifetime of study to show that the story of Jerusalem is truly the story of the world.

读后感

《耶路撒冷三千年》，作为历史普及读物，总的来看还算及格（我打70分）。可能是因为期待过久，多少心里觉得有些失望。 书的前半基本上是圣经故事和古兰经故事的节选，后半部分随着史料的增多，内容有所丰富。但是作为普及读物，很多基础知识交待得并不清楚，很多事件也说得不很...

即使在世俗的中国读者的眼中，耶路撒冷也是有着神圣光辉的。虽不信，敬远之。 初读时，觉得讲述耶路撒冷的历史，从传说到现代，即便是一本像砖头一样的书，也显得太短。从每一章节后备注的诸多的注释，似乎都能再引申出一本书的故事。 书读过半，便已觉得书中中太多的人，太...  

这本书被简体中文版的译者毁了。 首先自我澄清一下，这本书我还没有看完，准确的说，写下这些文字的时候，刚刚开头。 其次我买了Kindle版的简体中文正版、台版（究竟）的纸版，然后有网上的英文电子版（抱歉，盗版）。 所以，我想，我无法评价内容，但是对比一下翻译还是靠谱的...  

/ 文 / 左叔 / 新浪读书签约书评人 / / 书评约稿，请豆邮 / 一个半月前，我在社交媒体上晒出了我想读完《耶路撒冷三千年》的计划，当时就有一个我现如今已经忘掉名字的朋友，在我那条动态的下面留言评论。Ta直言我无法顺利读完之后，仍不甘心又补了一句：即便读完了，也未必能...  

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常識和八卦雜燴。。

2014.03月底在莎士比亞書店 Paris

读的中文版，难为作者了，复杂的宗教冲突，要站在一个中立的立场上叙述不容易。

三千年的编年体八卦集

常識和八卦雜燴。。