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| Genre/Form: | Maps |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Atlas |
| Document Type: | Map |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
M Ben-Dov; Karṭa (Firm) |
| ISBN: | 082641379X 9780826413796 |
| OCLC Number: | 48376528 |
| Notes: | "Copyright 2000, 2002, Carta, The Israel Map and Publishing Company, Ltd."--T.p. verso. |
| Description: | 1 atlas (xvi, 400 p.) : ill., maps ; 27 cm. |
| Contents: | Jerusalem / Fr. Bargil Pixner, O.S.B. -- Before the City Existed: First Steps -- Between Sea and Desert: The Fertile Crescent -- International Routes in the Fertile Crescent: Via Maris and the King's Highway -- Jerusalem and the International Routes -- "The Mountains Round About Jerusalem" -- Water Sources in Jerusalem and Environs -- Cultivated Land and Agriculture -- Foundation of the City -- Names of the City Through the Ages -- Canaanite Jerusalem: From Yqr'm to Araunah (3000-1000 BCE) -- The First Thousand Years -- Yqr'm and Ss'n, Kings of Jerusalem in the Period of the Execration Texts (20th-18th cent. BCE) -- Melchizedek, King of Shalem, Priest of God Most High -- The Patriarch Abraham and the Sacrifice of Isaac--Mount Moriah -- Abdi Heb/pa, Ruler of Jerusalem: The El-Amarna Period (14th cent. BCE) -- The City-state of Jerusalem -- Jerusalem on the Eve of Joshua's Conquest: The Kingdom of Adoni-zedek (13th cent. BCE) -- Jerusalem-Jebus, a Hittite and Amorite City: The Kingdom of Araunah (12th-11th cent. BCE) -- Jerusalem in the First Temple Period: The House of David, from David to Zedekiah (1000-586 BCE) -- From Jebus to the City of David -- From Capital City to Royal Temple and Royal Seat -- Solomon Builds the First Temple -- The City Expands Westward, to the Upper Hills: From Jehoshaphat to the Destruction of the First Temple -- Water in Time of Siege: Warren's Shaft, the Siloam Channel, Hezekiah's Tunnel -- Palaces Outside the City -- The Necropolis: Tombs of Jerusalem's Kings and Aristocracy. |
| Responsibility: | Meir Ben-Dov ; [translated from the original Hebrew by David Louvish]. |
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