Jerusalem

Chapter Overview

• Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation

• Chapter 2: Jerusalem saw settlement as early as 5000 BC, with the Israelites arriving 4000 years afterward.

• Chapter 3: Jerusalem’s first two temples provided a conduit to God and assumed a central place in shaping development of Judaism.

• Chapter 4: Jesus was born during turbulent times, ultimately leading to his crucifixion and a contested resurrection.

• Chapter 5: A Roman emperor commanded an assault on Jerusalem, thereby causing the fall of the Second Temple.

• Chapter 6: The Romans embraced Christianity and started structuring their empire around the faith.

• Chapter 7: Muhammad guided his followers on a sacred journey to Jerusalem.

• Chapter 8: Efforts at Muslim unity collapsed when the First Crusade utterly devastated Jerusalem.

• Chapter 9: Muslim resistance sparked later crusades and an ongoing struggle for Jerusalem thereafter.

• Chapter 10: An army of slave-soldiers reclaimed Jerusalem, later prompting the city’s reconstruction.

• Chapter 11: After the Mamluks, Jerusalem passed to the Ottomans, and the city steadily grew thereafter.

• Chapter 12: Around the dawn of the twentieth century, hopes for Jewish and Arab independence blossomed.

• Chapter 13: Following World War I, a series of international treaties heightened tensions in Jerusalem.

• Chapter 14: The decades following WWI were marked by mounting violence and rising extremism.

• Chapter 15: Intensifying violence precipitated the Battle of Jerusalem in 1948 itself.

• Chapter 16: An enraged Egyptian president triggered a brief war that ultimately delivered a decisive victory for Israel.

• Chapter 17: Jerusalem’s situation remains an intricate and complicated standoff.