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Synopsis
Hardly a week passes figuring prominently in week without Jerusalem the world media. Why should a small city of 500,000 inhabitants, situated on a mountain in a remote part of the world, not the capital of a major power, maintain such a disproportionate significance in the world's eyes? And why has Jerusalem, a small town for most of its more than 4,000 year existence, outlived some of the greatest world cities of antiquity? Abraham E. Millgram attempts to answer these questions by applying the discipline of an historical perspective. Rejecting the normal criteria of greatness, population, power, and wealth; he traces the process by which Jerusalem has captured the imagination and the hearts of a major segment of mankind, becoming a sacred city, holy to three faiths. In his retelling the tortured, tragic, and yet awe-inspiring history of Jerusalem, he untangles the interwoven strands, cutting to the core of central issues and trends.