Simon Sebag Montefiore read history at Cambridge University. His books have been published in more than thirty-five languages. Potemkin: Catherine the Great’s Imperial Partner was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and Marsh Biography prizes in Britain. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar was awarded the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. Young Stalin won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award (U.K.), le Grand Prix de la biographie politique (France) and the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Literature (Austria). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Montefiore lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children.
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence.
How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the “center of the world” and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem’s biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women—kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores—who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Lincoln, Rasputin, Lawrence of Arabia and Moshe Dayan.
Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime’s study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice—in heaven and on earth.
中华民族从来都不是一个宗教狂热的民族,中国历代也都不是一个政教合一的国家,即使在佛教最盛行的时期,历史上也从未出现过政教合一的政权。 触碰《耶路撒冷三千年》完全是为了试图解开一直以来内心关于宗教狂热的各种想象及疑问而作的努力中的一种尝试。 因为从近三十年前,...
评分 评分这本书被简体中文版的译者毁了。 首先自我澄清一下,这本书我还没有看完,准确的说,写下这些文字的时候,刚刚开头。 其次我买了Kindle版的简体中文正版、台版(究竟)的纸版,然后有网上的英文电子版(抱歉,盗版)。 所以,我想,我无法评价内容,但是对比一下翻译还是靠谱的...
评分耶路撒冷的历史是整个世界的历史,它同时也是犹地亚山间一座长年贫瘠的小镇的编年史。耶路撒冷曾被视为世界的中心,而今它比以往任何时候都要名副其实:这座城市是亚伯拉罕系宗教之间斗争的焦点,是越来越受欢迎的基督教、犹太教和伊斯兰教基本教义派的圣地,是不同文明冲突的...
1. 开始还没有感觉,比较中立客观;看到后面,尤其近代开始,就很明显是犹太人写的。 2. 看的英文为主,中文为辅。译后记才发现是多人合译,难怪有些地方Nablus翻译成那不勒斯(囧),有些地方是纳布卢斯。 3. 看书之前,必须看一遍地图。 4. 书写的很好
评分在新加坡机场闲逛买的 听说简体中文版翻译的差 两本对照起来看。
评分其实是听完的,佯装看完
评分有意思的是,一次乘飞机,邻座的一个以色列大爷一度以为我在读Montefiore家族的传记。聊了会才知道这个家族在英国势力强大,非常富有。他们曾经在以色列建国的时候捐了一大笔钱,现在以色列依然有很多街道以家族姓氏命名
评分英文版比中文翻译版看起来轻松多了
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