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An epic history of the holy city at the heart of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is presented through the lives of its creators and conquerors, in a chronicle that draws on new archival materials, current scholarship, and the author's own family records.

Mycroft Holmes has a job that needs doing in 1919 Palestine, where an unfinished war is about to blow up.

A 12th Century crusade for control of the Holy Land. The hero is Rannulf Fitzwilliam, an illiterate Templar knight who leads the Christians to victory, earning him the romantic attention of Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem. But Fitzwilliam is no diplomat and internal political intrigues weaken the Christians. The forces of Islam take advantage, and under the great Saladin they defeat the Christians in another battle. By the author of Pacific Street.

This novel of philosophical reflection is set in Jerusalem during the time of the Crusades. Here a community of Christians, Arabs, and Jews who have long lived together harmoniously have been warned of an imminent attack and certain destruction. Contemplating their demise, the community assembles to seek the wise counsel of a Greek Copt, who imparts comforting and guiding wisdom on the enduring attributes of human character.

The story of the world's most incredible city, capturing the rich mosaic of the city's Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities. Covering a history of over 4,000 years, the film explores the founding of the city, and the birth and convergence of the world's three major monotheistic religions, and the key events in Jerusalem's history as described in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, the Talmud, the Hagaddah, the Koran, and the Hadith. Highlights include:...

Duncan, son of Murdo, thinks the Great Crusade is long over, until his uncle returns home to die, telling of great treasures and a relic yet to be won, greater than the Iron Lance--the Black Rood, a fragment of the True Cross, as valuable to the ancient Celtic faith Cele De as to the upstart Christian faith.

A locally filmed performance of Israeli storyteller Noa Baum's one-woman show, "A Land Twice Promised". Baum's play examines the lives of Palestinian and Israeli women in Jerusalem around the time of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.

Jerusalem is the story of a single family--three generations of very different people--as they are swept up in the chaos of nation-making from 1940 to 1948. Love, death, faith, family, and politics form the perilous mix that fuels this ambitious, cinematic graphic novel about the events surrounding the creation of the modern Israeli state.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem was baptized in blood when the men of the First Crusade captured it from the Saracens in the early twelfth century. A land of blazing heat and a medley of cultures, it is a place where enemies were neighbors and neighbors became enemies. Baldwin IV, an intelligent and courageous boy committed to the welfare and protection of his people, is afflicted with leprosy. The threats against his power and his health nearly outweigh...