Chapter I: Preface

The object of this volume is to present in a convenient form the results of research and exploration concerning the history and buildings of the city of Jerusalem--results which have accumulated during the last half-century, but which are scattered in many expensive works not easily accessible for the general reader. The story of forty centuries is carried down to the present year, and reliance is chiefly placed on monumental information.

CHELTENHAM,
_January 5th, 1909_.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. INTRODUCTORY 1

II. BEFORE DAVID 25

III. THE HEBREW KINGS 48

IV. EZRA AND NEHEMIAH 74

V. THE GREEK AGE 86

VI. HEROD THE GREAT 108

VII. THE GOSPEL SITES 139

VIII. THE FALL OF JERUSALEM 159

IX. THE ROMAN CITY 188

X. THE BYZANTINES 208

XI. THE ARABS 233

XII. THE TURKS 256

XIII. THE LATIN KINGDOM 275

XIV. FRANKS AND MOSLEMS 308

LIST OF AUTHORITIES, ETC. 327

INDEX 329

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

HEROD’S TEMPLE (MISS DUTHOIT’S MODEL) _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

THE SILOAM INSCRIPTION 66

JERUSALEM IN 600 B. C. 78

HEBREW INSCRIPTION (TOMB OF THE BENI ḤEZIR) 104

HERODIAN GRAFFITI 118

DOME AT THE DOUBLE GATE 120

GREEK TEXT OF HEROD’S TEMPLE 122

BLOCK PLAN OF HEROD’S TEMPLE 128

THE SUPPOSED SITE OF CALVARY 152

TOMB WEST OF CALVARY 156

JERUSALEM IN 70 A. D. 176

THE MEDEBA MOSAIC MAP 200

SPECIMENS OF MASONRY 220

JERUSALEM IN 530 A. D. 226

JERUSALEM IN 1187 A. D. 284

EARLY MAP OF JERUSALEM (ABOUT 1308 A. D.) 322

MODERN JERUSALEM 328

THE

CITY OF JERUSALEM