Tracing the Jerusalem Code

Release on 2021-04-19 | by Kristin B. Aavitsland

The continued involvement in the crusades to Jerusalem in the twelfth century affected the conception of the city in both Europe and Scandinavia. During the eleventh century, the three symbols of the cross, Christ, and Jerusalem became ...

Author: Kristin B. Aavitsland
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 9783110636277
Category: Religion
Page: 637
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Tracing the Jerusalem Code

With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Jerusalem is conceived as a code to Christian cultures in Scandinavia. The first volume is dealing with the different notions of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages. Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536) Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750) Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920)

Language: en
Pages: 637

Tracing the Jerusalem Code

Authors: Kristin B. Aavitsland, Line M. Bonde

Categories: Religion

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-19 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Language: en
Pages: 404

Jerusalem's Temple Mount

Authors: Mike M. Joseph

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10 - Publisher: AuthorHouse

The author purports to show that the place originally believed to be the site of the Holy Temple Mount in Jerusalem is not the site at all. He raises other questions and concerns about theology and beliefs among the three major religions that play out in this debate: Judaism, Christianity

Language: en
Pages: 560

Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem

Authors: Isaac Kalimi, Seth Richardson

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-30 - Publisher: BRILL

In Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem, twelve scholars of the ancient world examine the histories, myths, and tales that formed around the Assyrian campaign of 701 B.C.E. over the course of more than a millennium of re-tellings.