The People of the Book by Gertrude Himmelfarb

Author:Gertrude Himmelfarb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2011-10-11T04:00:00+00:00

From London to Jerusalem—it is not only another world but another time-order that Tancred enters.ac To penetrate the mystery of the East was to understand its history, which was an integral part of the present. The richness of that history becomes evident to him as he wanders from the garden of Gethsemane toward Bethany.

Before him is a living, a yet breathing and existing city, which Assyrian monarchs came down to besiege, which the chariots of Pharaohs encompassed, which Roman Emperors have personally assailed, for which Saladin and Coeur de Lion, the Desert and Christendom, Asia and Europe, struggled in rival chivalry; a city which Mahomet sighed to rule, and over which the Creator alike of Assyrian kings and Egyptian Pharaohs and Roman Caesars, the Framer alike of the Desert and of Christendom, poured forth the full effusion of his divinely human sorrow.30

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