Jerusalem
The Contested City

First the land, then the city. It could hardly have been otherwise with the nomadic Hebrews, a tiny cluster of tribes that possessed as yet only a name. This book had been haunting me. I was studying in the library last week when, out of the corner of my eye, I caught this beautiful and engaging sp......more

Peters' content is much stronger than his lecturing. The most interesting part of this to me was the more modern history of Jerusalem. (Note: I'm stingy with stars. For me 2 stars means a good book. 3 = Very good; 4 = Outstanding {only about 5% of the books I read merit this}; 5 = All time favorites......more

Learned so much listening to this. Going to listen to others in the series. It’s actually a series of lectures by college professors. My brain needs to work!......more

fascinating audiobook! Too much history to remember it all!......more

Seems like even a basic primer like this one would lend a lot of common knowledge to stand as a base for any argument or discussion to come about the region. With an investment of about 8 hours you can possess several times the knowledge on this subject that Trump has (and he gets to possibly start......more