In the shadow of the Temple : the discovery of ancient Jerusalem / Meir Ben-Dov ; translated from the Hebrew by Ina Friedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ben-Dov, M.

Standardized Title:

Ḥafirot Har ha-Bayit. English

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Temple Mount (Jerusalem)--Antiquities.

Temple Mount (Jerusalem).

Jerusalem--Antiquities.

Jerusalem.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Jerusalem.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Antiquities.

Middle East--Jerusalem.

Middle East--Jerusalem--Temple Mount.

Physical Description:

381 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Other Title:

Discovery of ancient Jerusalem

Discovery of ancient Jerusalem.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper & Row, [1985]

Contents:

Introduction

1. A Dig is Born

2. Remains from the Kingdom of Judah

3. The Persian and Hasmonean Eras

4. Herod's Monumental Enterprise

5. The Walls of the Temple Mount

6. The Streets and Drainage System

7. The First Overpass in History

8. The Gates of the Temple Mount

9. Daily Life in the Second Temple Period

10. Public Building and Institutions

11. Roman Jerusalem

12. Jerusalem Under Christian Rule

13. The Age of Byzantine Splendor

14. The Byzantine Residential Quarter

15. Between the Cross and the Crescent

16. The Start of the Moslem Age

17. The Omayyad Era

18. The Days of the Abbasids and the Fatimids

19. A Cross on the Temple Mount

20. In the Shade of the Crescent Again

21. An Archaeological Garden

Selected Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 381).

Local Notes:

Acc.# 201415

Other Format:

Online version: Ben-Dov, M. Ḥafirot Har ha-Bayit. English. In the shadow of the Temple.

ISBN:

0060153628

9780060153625

OCLC:

11650373