The city of Jerusalem

Chapter 2: PREFACE

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About This Book

The work offers a concise, chronological survey of Jerusalem’s built environment and documentary remains from its earliest occupation through Hebrew, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, Crusader, and Ottoman phases. It synthesizes archaeological finds, inscriptions, ancient accounts, and plans to identify and interpret temples, walls, churches, mosques, tombs, and urban infrastructure. Organized by period and theme, chapters address premonarchic traces, the eras of the Hebrew rulers, post‑exilic rebuilding, major construction phases, Gospel‑era sites, the city’s destruction and Roman layout, and medieval and modern transformations. Maps, illustrations, and epigraphic evidence are used to clarify contested locations and show how successive communities reused earlier fabric.

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HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,
LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

PREFACE

The object of this volume is to present in a convenient form the results of research and exploration concerning the history and buildings of the city of Jerusalem—results which have accumulated during the last half-century, but which are scattered in many expensive works not easily accessible for the general reader. The story of forty centuries is carried down to the present year, and reliance is chiefly placed on monumental information.

Cheltenham,
January 5th, 1909.