Jerusalem
The Topography, Economics and History from the Earliest Times to AD 70

This two-volume work (1907–8), spanning more than fourteen centuries, expertly elucidates the topography, economics and history of ancient Jerusalem.

George Adam Smith (Author)

9781108063524, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2013

674 pages, 5 b/w illus. 7 maps
21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.84 kg

First published in two volumes between 1907 and 1908, this major work by the Scottish biblical scholar and geographer Sir George Adam Smith (1856–1942) is organised into three books. Volume 2 contains the third book and consists of a historical narrative that clarifies political and religious developments in ancient Jerusalem. It contains a number of useful maps, plans and photographs. Best known for his celebrated Historical Geography of the Holy Land (1894), Smith provides here a more detailed and specialist analysis, based on first-hand knowledge derived from the visits he made to the region over the years. Spanning more than fourteen centuries of Jerusalem's history from 1400 BCE to 70 CE, these well-illustrated volumes remain a standard work of scholarship, expertly elucidating the changing shape of the city.

Prefatory note
Table of the principal stages in the history
Part III. The History: 1. The prelude
2. The conquest by David
3. Solomon and the temple
4. From Rehoboam to Ahaz
5. Isaiah's Jerusalem, from 740 onwards
6. Hezekiah and Sennacherib
7. Jerusalem under Manasseh
8. Josiah: Jerusalem and Deuteronomy
9. Jeremiah's Jerusalem
10. The desolate city
11. The ideal city and the real
12. The second temple, from Zechariah to Malachi
13. Ezra and Nehemiah
14. The rest of the Persian period
15. The Jew and the Greek
16. Jerusalem under the Maccabees and the Hasmoneans
17. Herod, the Romans and Jerusalem
18. Herod's castle and temple
19. The temple and the Lord
20. Jerusalem of the gospels
Appendix
General index
Special indexes.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]