The Chief Inhabitant
Diarmaid MacCulloch: Jerusalem, 14 July 2011
Jerusalem: The Biography
by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Weidenfeld, 638 pp., £25, January 2011,978 0 297 85265 0 Show More
by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Weidenfeld, 638 pp., £25, January 2011,
“... its city walls have been preserved intact (minus a conspicuous gap, knocked through so that Kaiser Bill could make a more than usually pompous entry on behalf of imperial Lutheranism). Even considering the extensions to the wall made in the late Roman period, Jerusalem usually surprises those who visit it for the first time by how small it is. King David’s ... ”