Digging up Jerusalem / by Kathleen M. Kenyon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenyon, Kathleen M., 1906-1978.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jerusalem--Antiquities.

Jerusalem.

Jerusalem--History.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 288 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Tonbridge : Ernest Benn, [1974]

Contents:

The first hundred years

The topography and history of Jerusalem and its problems

Excavation methods and the dig in Jerusalem

Pre-Israelite Jerusalem

David's Jerusalem

Jerusalem at the time of Solomon

The Kingdom of Judah and its capital Jerusalem

The last century of the Kingdom of Judah

The destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the monarchy of Judah

The Post-Exilic Period

Jerusalem in the Hellenistic Period and the time of the Maccabees

Jerusalem of Herod the Great and of the New Testament

Jerusalem in the first century A.D. down to the end of Jewish Jerusalem

Aelia Capitolina

Byzantine, Moslem, and Crusader Jerusalem.

Notes:

"First published 1974 by Ernest Benn Limited ..."

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxxi) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1976".

ISBN:

0510033156

0510033164

0510033194

OCLC:

990790