The Story of Jerusalem (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Story of Jerusalem Tms little work is intended to give a résumé Of the story of Jerusalem from the earliest times to the present day, and to record brie¿y the vicissitudes through which the city has passed, the sieges from which it has suffered, the many changes of its rulers, and the manner in which it has always revived, no matter how complete has been its desolation. Although it was in truth a Mediaeval Town of great importance, it would not be possible to explain the position it occupied in Mediaeval times without going much further back in its history, and explaining how it reached that position, and why, for so many centuries, it was the battle ground Oi East and West. It is a Sacred City for three of the most important religions of the world, the Jewish, the Christian, and the Moslem, for the two first tbt Holy City, and, for the third, second only to Mecca and Medina. Probably for this reason more than any other, Jerusalem has maintained its continued existence, and, for this reason it can never die so long as mankind continues to have any religious belief at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.