Four Paths to Jerusalem: Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Secular Pilgrimages, 1000 BCE to 2001 CEJerusalem has long been one of the most sought-after destinations for the followers of three world faiths and for secularists alike. For Jews, it has the Western (Wailing) Wall; for Christians, it is where Christ suffered and triumphed; for Muslims, it offers the Dome of the Rock; and for secularists, it is an archeological challenge and a place of tragedy and beauty. This work concentrates on Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and secular pilgrimages to Jerusalem over the last three millennia, drawing from over 165 accounts of travels to the ancient city. Chapters are devoted to ghostly and other pilgrims, the significance of Jerusalem, the beginnings of the pilgrimage in the time of kings David and Solomon, pilgrimages under Roman and Byzantine rule, Christian and Muslim pilgrimages in the early Islamic period, pilgrimages in the First Crusade and its aftermath, more crusades and pilgrims during the Ayyubid and Mamluk dynasties, pilgrimages under Ottoman rule, pilgrimages under the British and Israelis, and the unity among pilgrims and the symbolism of the journey. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
I Ghostly and Other Pilgrims | 9 |
II A Primer on the Importance of Jerusalem | 19 |
III The Old City | 36 |
The First and Second Temples c 1000 BCE63 BCE | 42 |
V Pilgrims Under Roman and Byzantine Rule 63 BCE638 CE | 50 |
Christian and Muslim Pilgrimages 6381095 | 69 |
The First Crusade and Its Aftermath 10951187 | 86 |
Selected Chronology | 207 |
Appendix I Selected List of Accounts Cited in Chronological Order | 215 |
An Account by Flavius Josephus 70 CE | 217 |
Appendix III The Travels of St Willibald 720726 | 219 |
Appendix IV List of the Presents Brought Home from Jerusalem by Nompar de Caumont 1420 | 221 |
Appendix V Instructions for Christian Pilgrims c 1484 | 223 |
Appendix VI Balfour and the Zionists | 225 |
Appendix VII Reports by Albright Fellows 19902000 | 227 |