Four Paths to Jerusalem

Table of Contents



List of Maps viii

Preface

Introduction



I. Ghostly and Other Pilgrims

II. A Primer on the Importance of Jerusalem

III. The Old City

IV. Beginnings of the Jerusalem Pilgrimage: The First and Second Temples (c. 1000 BCE-63 BCE)

V. Pilgrims Under Roman and Byzantine Rule (63 BCE-638 CE)

VI. The Early Islamic Period: Christian and Muslim Pilgrimages (638-1095)

VII. "A Pilgrimage in Arms": The First Crusade and Its Aftermath (1095-1187)

VIII. More Crusades and More Pilgrims: The Ayyubid and Mamluk Dynasties (1187-1517)

IX. Pilgrimages Under Ottoman Rule (1517-1917)

X. Pilgrimages During the British Mandate and Under the Israelis (1917-2001)

XI. A Summing-Up: "Unity in Diversity" and the Symbolism of the Journey



Selected Chronology

Appendix I. Selected List of Accounts Cited, in Chronological Order

Appendix II. The Destruction of the Herodian Temple: An Account by Flavius Josephus, 70 CE

Appendix III. The Travels of St. Willibald, 720-726

Appendix IV. List of the Presents Brought Home from Jerusalem by Nompar de Caumont, 1420

Appendix V. Instructions for Christian Pilgrims, c. 1484

Appendix VI. Balfour and the Zionists

Appendix VII. Reports by Albright Fellows, 1990-2000

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index



List of Maps

Israel today (CIA World Factbook 2000)

Circular map of the world, thirteenth century (The British Library)

Jerusalem: the Old City (Eklectica Graphic Design)

Mini-map from Bernhard von Breydenbach's map of Jerusalem, 1486

(Courtesy of the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine)

Medieval "T in O" map (Eklectica Graphic Design)