首先看看读者评价:
读者一:〈圣经〉上说“世上若有十分美,九分在耶路撒冷;世上若有十分忧,也有九分在耶路撒冷”第二次买这本书啦,对这片神奇的区域感兴趣的伙伴都该来读读这本书!
读者二:先说书的内容吧,对于我来说,这是一本很经典的了解圣城耶路撒冷的书,从各个方面各个角度不同文化不同背景,讲述属于这座城市的悲欢离合,也许你觉得一座城就是简单一座城,可耶路撒冷会给你不同的感受;同时对中东地区,对三大宗教的前世今生有了系统的了解。值得入手!
读者三:个人认为,涉及到政治、宗教、文明、历史等方面的书籍,还是尽可能阅读外文原版,其次是繁体版(香港、台湾翻译)。大陆由于翻译能力及其它原因...,看书多的人都懂的。这本耶路撒冷三千年,我直接以3倍的价格入手台湾版,将近4倍的价钱入手英文原版。值得收藏啊!
读者四:看了这书之后,对于欧洲与中东这几千年以来的恩怨情仇,有了更深层次的理解,也看到对圣经的内容有了很好的旁证。
读者五:在腾讯上看到李宇春推荐这本书,觉得很好所以买来看看,第yi次买如此厚这么贵的一本书,一定会好好看完的。
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读《耶路撒冷三千年》,了解真实的耶路撒冷,就会明白世界为何演变成的模样。耶路撒冷曾被视为世界的中心,是基督教、犹太教和伊斯兰教三大宗教的圣地,是文明冲突的战略要冲,是让世人魂牵梦绕的去处,是惑人的阴谋、虚构的网络传说和二十四小时新闻发生的地方。
作者西蒙·蒙蒂菲奥里依年代顺序,以三大宗教围绕“圣城”的角逐,以几大家族的兴衰更迭为主线,生动讲述了耶路撒冷的前世今生;作者通过大量的田野调查和文献考据,以客观、中立的角度,透过士兵与先知、诗人与国王、农民与音乐家的生活,以及创造耶路撒冷的家族来呈现这座城市的三千年瑰丽历史,还原真实的耶路撒冷……
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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.From the Hardcover edition. 书评
Jackson Diehl …sweeping and absorbing…a master of colorful and telling details and anecdotes…Montefiore's account is admirably dispassionate and balanced… —The Washington Post Jonathan Rosen In Jerusalem: The Biography, Simon Sebag Montefiore unleashes so many kings, killers, prophets, pretenders, caliphs and crusaders, all surfing an ocean of blood, that the reader may begin to long for redemption, not from the book, which is impossible to put down, but from history itself…Montefiore…has a fine eye for the telling detail, and also a powerful feel for a good story—so much so that his vastly enjoyable chronicle at times has a quasi-mythic aspect. —The New York Times Book Review Fewer Reviews Publishers Weekly Popular historian Montefiore (Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar) presents a panoramic narrative of Jerusalem, organized chronologically and delivered with magisterial flair. Spanning eras from King David to modern Israel with rich anecdotes and vivid detail, this exceptional volume portrays the personalities and worldviews of the dynasties and families that shaped the city throughout its 3,000-year history. Montefiore explains how religious and political influences created the city’s character, while fostering its stature as a center of the Western religious world. He effectively demonstrates how political necessity stimulated and inspired religious devotion and how the portrayal of Jerusalem as a holy city sacred to three religions is relatively recent. Chapters are organized by epochs: Judaism, paganism, Christianity, Islam, Crusade, Mamluk, empire, and Zionism, with the body of the book ending with the Six-Day War. A balanced epilogue considers Jerusalem in the context of recent events. Drawing upon archival materials, archeological findings, recent scholarship, and his own family’s papers (he is descended from the 19th-century Jewish leader Moses Montefiore), Montefiore delivers Jerusalem’s unfolding story as epic panorama and nuanced documentary history, suitable for general and scholarly audiences. Photos and maps. (Oct.) Library Journal Few historians have demonstrated the vision, mastery, and boldness necessary to publish on a subject so vast and in such detail as Montefiore (Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar). Since Jerusalem's origins as a settlement more than 5000 years ago, its history, in the author's citation of 19th-century British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, is "the history of the world." Montefiore explains the city's significance to the three Abrahamic faiths, the idiosyncrasies of its builders and conquerors, and the persistent perception there of a "divine presence." Montefiore starts with King David (he takes the Old Testament as the historical source), gets to the "quixotic and risky but pious" Crusades about halfway through the book, and goes on to note such "pilgrims" as Rasputin and Mark Twain. He confronts challenging questions, including the destruction of the Temple at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C.E. and by Titus in 70 C.E. and the remarkable "Dome of the Rock," and he moves onward to the creation of modern Israel. VERDICT A marvelous panorama for all readers with an interest in religious studies or world history. [See Prepub Alert, 4/4/11.]—Zachary T. Irwin, Pennsylvania State Univ.-Erie Kirkus Reviews The sanguinary story of thousands of years of conflict in the home city of religions. Perhaps it's impossible to write disinterested history, but Montefiore (Young Stalin, 2007, etc.) endeavors to do so—and largely succeeds. The author sees Jerusalem not just as the setting for some of history's most savage violence—some of the butchery makes Titus Andronicus look like a Sesame Street segment—but a microcosm of our world. Our inability to achieve sustained peace there is emblematic of our failures around the globe. Montefiore begins in 70 CE with the assault of the Roman leader Titus (not Andronicus) on Jerusalem, an attack featuring thousands of crucifixions of Jews—not to mention eviscerations to extract from the bowels of the victims the valuables they'd swallowed. The author then retreats to the age of the biblical David, and away we go, sprinting through millennia, pausing only for necessary explanations of politics, religion, warfare and various intrigues. The story is horribly complex, and Montefiore struggles mightily to make everything clear as well as compelling, but the vast forest of names, places, events sometimes thoroughly conceals some small treasure at its heart. Still, the history is here: Nebuchadnezzar, the Herods, Alexander the Great, Jesus, Pilate, Caligula, Paul, Titus, Justinian, the Arabs and the Muslims, the Crusades, Richard the Lionheart, Saladin, Suleiman, Ottomans, Napoleon, Disraeli, Lawrence of Arabia, Zionism. There are even some guest appearances by Thackeray, Twain and Melville. Suddenly, we are in the 20th century, and only the names and the killing technology have changed. The author ends with the 1967 Six-Day War and with some speculations about the future. An essential text, bathed in blood, lit with faint hope.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore was born in 1965 and read history at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
西蒙?蒙蒂菲奥里(Simon Sebag Montefiore)
生于1965年,曾在剑桥大学攻读历史。
他是英国皇家文学学会研究员,耶路撒冷旧城外第yi座犹太住宅区的建造者摩西?蒙蒂菲奥里爵士的曾孙,纪录片《耶路撒冷:一座圣城的诞生》()主持人。
他的作品被翻译成三十五 种语言,畅销多个国家,曾获得英国科斯塔传记奖、美国《洛杉矶时报》传记图书奖、法国政治传记大奖,以及奥地利克莱斯基政治文学奖等众多大奖。
《新闻周刊》评论蒙蒂菲奥里说,他能将庞大的历史书籍写成极为好看的惊悚作品;他知道怎样才能让历史变得浅显易懂;他的博学、睿智使人忍不住想向美国国务卿推荐,聘请他担任幕僚。
张倩红(译者)
犹太文化研究专家,中国中东学会常务理事,中国世界民族学会常务理事,中国世界现代史研究会理事,河南大学副校长。其在犹太学领域所作的贡献获得国内外学术界的广泛认可,是首位在剑桥大学Journal of Jewish Studies上发表论文的亚洲学者,也是2008年以色列六十周年国庆大典上两位接到佩雷斯邀请的中国学者之一。
马丹静(译者)
法学博士,毕业于中国社会科学院俄罗斯东欧中亚研究所,现为河南大学犹太—以色列研究中心研究人员,主要从事犹太—以色列史研究。
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