Jerusalem: Center of the World
The history of the city of Jerusalem is told from it's beginning as a Cannanite city that Abraham was led to by God up to the modern day and how all three religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have their history there.
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"This is a decent-enough historical overview of Jerusalem and the earlier portions reflect recent research. There is also some lovely photography. But the coverage of the post-Roman periods is uneven, uninspired and marred greatly by out-of-date stereotypes, particularly the treatment of the three religions who share the city: saintly-victim Jews, benevolent Muslim overlords and bloodthirsty Christian crusaders. When a documentary completely glosses over the destruction of Muslim Arab culture in the Levant perpetrated by 12th-century Kurdish general Saladin, in order to concentrate only on his ..."
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The history of the city of Jerusalem is told from it's beginning as a Cannanite city that Abraham was led to by God up to the modern day and how all three religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have their history there.