Where Three Roads Meet: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Unearthing Jerusalem: 150 Years of Archaeological Research ix
4. Where Three Roads Meet: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1
5. Part 1. The History of Research
6. British Archaeological Work in Jerusalem between 1865 and 1967: An Assessment 23
7. The German Protestant Institute of Archaeology 59
8. The American Archaeological Presence in Jerusalem: Through the Gates of the Albright Institute 73
9. The École Biblique et Archéologique Française: A Catholic, French, and Archaeological Institution 95
10. The Archaeology of Jerusalem and the Franciscans of the Studium Biblicum 109
11. The Israel Exploration Society (IES) 117
12. The Departments of Antiquities and the Israel Antiquities Authority (1918–2006): The Jerusalem Experience 125
13. Part 2. From Early Humans to the Iron Age
14. Prehistory of the Jerusalem Area 149
15. The Archaeology of Early Jerusalem: From the Late Proto-Historic Periods (ca. 5th Millennium) to the End of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1200 b.c.e.) 171
16. Jerusalem in the Iron Age: Archaeology and Text; Reality and Myth 189
17. Part 3. The Roman Period
18. The Location of the Second Temple and the Layout of its Courts, Gates, and Chambers: A New Proposal 205
19. Has the Adiabene Royal Family “Palace” Been Found in the City of David? 231
20. The Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem of the Late Second Temple Period and Its Surroundings 241
21. A Domestic Quarter from the Second Temple Period on the Lower Slopes of the Central Valley (Tyropoeon) 257
22. Coins from Excavations in the Domestic Quarter of the City of David, Jerusalem 294
23. On the “New City” of Second Temple Period Jerusalem: The Archaeological Evidence 299
24. Aelia Capitolina: A Review of Some Current Debates about Hadrianic Jerusalem 313
25. Part 4. The Byzantine Period
26. The Urban Layout of Byzantine-Period Jerusalem 327
27. Epigraphic Finds Reveal New Chapters in the History of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the 6th Century 351
28. The Hinterland of Jerusalem during the Byzantine Period 361
29. Part 5. The Early Islamic and Medieval Periods
30. From Hagia Polis to Al-Quds: The Byzantine–Islamic Transition in Jerusalem 387
31. Jerusalem and the Beginnings of the Islamic City 399
32. Early Islamic and Medieval City Walls of Jerusalem in Light of New Discoveries 417
33. Ayyubid Jerusalem: New Architectural and Archaeological Discoveries 453
34. Mamluk and Ottoman Jerusalem 475