Jerusalem

出版者:Knopf

作者:Simon Sebag Montefiore

页数:688

出版时间:2011-10-25

价格:USD 35.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780307266514

具体描述

Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence.

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—kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores—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.

Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime’s study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice—in heaven and on earth.

作者简介

Simon Sebag Montefiore read history at Cambridge University. His books have been published in more than thirty-five languages. Potemkin: Catherine the Great’s Imperial Partner was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and Marsh Biography prizes in Britain. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar was awarded 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 (U.K.), le Grand Prix de la biographie politique (France) and the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Literature (Austria). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Montefiore lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children.

读后感

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这本书或许原版写得特别精彩吧，反正这个假期这本书上了各大网站的推荐书单，而且清一色好评。可是这本书翻译很差有没有！每一句读起来都格外生涩，根本就是直译，毫无走心好伐。我觉得不值那50多块钱！因为翻译毁了这本书！  

用户评价

A metropolis history fragmented till now.

牵强附会的为宗教辩护

对于我这种完全不了解相关历史、信仰的人来说，这是一本看完就忘的流水账... 更希望了解无尽诛罚、繁衍、毁灭和营造背后是怎样的心理和动机，但也许作者意不在此 / 书里的一个意外高频词是 rebrand

邂逅：2016.1.图书馆； 旅程：2016.3.10.-2016.4.16.； 地点：坡； 虽然很厚，但每章都很简短，读来也就不那么吃力。头一次了解罗马帝国时代耶路撒冷和罗马，基督教与犹太教的相爱相杀。但毕竟要讲三千年的历史，感觉历史纵深与每一个切面的细致展开是一个trade off。我的阅读体验也就在冗繁无聊与刺激有料间徘徊。

there are many levels of truth.