首先看看讀者評價:
讀者一:〈聖經〉上說“世上若有十分美,九分在耶路撒冷;世上若有十分憂,也有九分在耶路撒冷”第二次買這本書啦,對這片神奇的區域感興趣的夥伴都該來讀讀這本書!
讀者二:先說書的內容吧,對於我來說,這是一本很經典的瞭解聖城耶路撒冷的書,從各個方麵各個角度不同文化不同背景,講述屬於這座城市的悲歡離閤,也許你覺得一座城就是簡單一座城,可耶路撒冷會給你不同的感受;同時對中東地區,對三大宗教的前世今生有瞭係統的瞭解。值得入手!
讀者三:個人認為,涉及到政治、宗教、文明、曆史等方麵的書籍,還是盡可能閱讀外文原版,其次是繁體版(香港、颱灣翻譯)。大陸由於翻譯能力及其它原因...,看書多的人都懂的。這本耶路撒冷三韆年,我直接以3倍的價格入手颱灣版,將近4倍的價錢入手英文原版。值得收藏啊!
讀者四:看瞭這書之後,對於歐洲與中東這幾韆年以來的恩怨情仇,有瞭更深層次的理解,也看到對聖經的內容有瞭很好的旁證。
讀者五:在騰訊上看到李宇春推薦這本書,覺得很好所以買來看看,第yi次買如此厚這麼貴的一本書,一定會好好看完的。
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讀《耶路撒冷三韆年》,瞭解真實的耶路撒冷,就會明白世界為何演變成的模樣。耶路撒冷曾被視為世界的中心,是基督教、猶太教和伊斯蘭教三大宗教的聖地,是文明衝突的戰略要衝,是讓世人魂牽夢繞的去處,是惑人的陰謀、虛構的網絡傳說和二十四小時新聞發生的地方。
作者西濛·濛蒂菲奧裏依年代順序,以三大宗教圍繞“聖城”的角逐,以幾大傢族的興衰更迭為主綫,生動講述瞭耶路撒冷的前世今生;作者通過大量的田野調查和文獻考據,以客觀、中立的角度,透過士兵與先知、詩人與國王、農民與音樂傢的生活,以及創造耶路撒冷的傢族來呈現這座城市的三韆年瑰麗曆史,還原真實的耶路撒冷……
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Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. ? How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the “center of the world” and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem’s biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women—kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores—who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Lincoln, Rasputin, Lawrence of Arabia and Moshe Dayan. ? Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime’s study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice—in heaven and on earth.From the Hardcover edition. 書評
Jackson Diehl …sweeping and absorbing…a master of colorful and telling details and anecdotes…Montefiore's account is admirably dispassionate and balanced… —The Washington Post Jonathan Rosen In Jerusalem: The Biography, Simon Sebag Montefiore unleashes so many kings, killers, prophets, pretenders, caliphs and crusaders, all surfing an ocean of blood, that the reader may begin to long for redemption, not from the book, which is impossible to put down, but from history itself…Montefiore…has a fine eye for the telling detail, and also a powerful feel for a good story—so much so that his vastly enjoyable chronicle at times has a quasi-mythic aspect. —The New York Times Book Review Fewer Reviews Publishers Weekly Popular historian Montefiore (Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar) presents a panoramic narrative of Jerusalem, organized chronologically and delivered with magisterial flair. Spanning eras from King David to modern Israel with rich anecdotes and vivid detail, this exceptional volume portrays the personalities and worldviews of the dynasties and families that shaped the city throughout its 3,000-year history. Montefiore explains how religious and political influences created the city’s character, while fostering its stature as a center of the Western religious world. He effectively demonstrates how political necessity stimulated and inspired religious devotion and how the portrayal of Jerusalem as a holy city sacred to three religions is relatively recent. Chapters are organized by epochs: Judaism, paganism, Christianity, Islam, Crusade, Mamluk, empire, and Zionism, with the body of the book ending with the Six-Day War. A balanced epilogue considers Jerusalem in the context of recent events. Drawing upon archival materials, archeological findings, recent scholarship, and his own family’s papers (he is descended from the 19th-century Jewish leader Moses Montefiore), Montefiore delivers Jerusalem’s unfolding story as epic panorama and nuanced documentary history, suitable for general and scholarly audiences. Photos and maps. (Oct.) Library Journal Few historians have demonstrated the vision, mastery, and boldness necessary to publish on a subject so vast and in such detail as Montefiore (Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar). Since Jerusalem's origins as a settlement more than 5000 years ago, its history, in the author's citation of 19th-century British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, is "the history of the world." Montefiore explains the city's significance to the three Abrahamic faiths, the idiosyncrasies of its builders and conquerors, and the persistent perception there of a "divine presence." Montefiore starts with King David (he takes the Old Testament as the historical source), gets to the "quixotic and risky but pious" Crusades about halfway through the book, and goes on to note such "pilgrims" as Rasputin and Mark Twain. He confronts challenging questions, including the destruction of the Temple at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C.E. and by Titus in 70 C.E. and the remarkable "Dome of the Rock," and he moves onward to the creation of modern Israel. VERDICT A marvelous panorama for all readers with an interest in religious studies or world history. [See Prepub Alert, 4/4/11.]—Zachary T. Irwin, Pennsylvania State Univ.-Erie Kirkus Reviews The sanguinary story of thousands of years of conflict in the home city of religions. Perhaps it's impossible to write disinterested history, but Montefiore (Young Stalin, 2007, etc.) endeavors to do so—and largely succeeds. The author sees Jerusalem not just as the setting for some of history's most savage violence—some of the butchery makes Titus Andronicus look like a Sesame Street segment—but a microcosm of our world. Our inability to achieve sustained peace there is emblematic of our failures around the globe. Montefiore begins in 70 CE with the assault of the Roman leader Titus (not Andronicus) on Jerusalem, an attack featuring thousands of crucifixions of Jews—not to mention eviscerations to extract from the bowels of the victims the valuables they'd swallowed. The author then retreats to the age of the biblical David, and away we go, sprinting through millennia, pausing only for necessary explanations of politics, religion, warfare and various intrigues. The story is horribly complex, and Montefiore struggles mightily to make everything clear as well as compelling, but the vast forest of names, places, events sometimes thoroughly conceals some small treasure at its heart. Still, the history is here: Nebuchadnezzar, the Herods, Alexander the Great, Jesus, Pilate, Caligula, Paul, Titus, Justinian, the Arabs and the Muslims, the Crusades, Richard the Lionheart, Saladin, Suleiman, Ottomans, Napoleon, Disraeli, Lawrence of Arabia, Zionism. There are even some guest appearances by Thackeray, Twain and Melville. Suddenly, we are in the 20th century, and only the names and the killing technology have changed. The author ends with the 1967 Six-Day War and with some speculations about the future. An essential text, bathed in blood, lit with faint hope.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore was born in 1965 and read history at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
西濛?濛蒂菲奧裏(Simon Sebag Montefiore)
生於1965年,曾在劍橋大學攻讀曆史。
他是英國皇傢文學學會研究員,耶路撒冷舊城外第yi座猶太住宅區的建造者摩西?濛蒂菲奧裏爵士的曾孫,紀錄片《耶路撒冷:一座聖城的誕生》()主持人。
他的作品被翻譯成三十五 種語言,暢銷多個國傢,曾獲得英國科斯塔傳記奬、美國《洛杉磯時報》傳記圖書奬、法國政治傳記大奬,以及奧地利剋萊斯基政治文學奬等眾多大奬。
《新聞周刊》評論濛蒂菲奧裏說,他能將龐大的曆史書籍寫成極為好看的驚悚作品;他知道怎樣纔能讓曆史變得淺顯易懂;他的博學、睿智使人忍不住想嚮美國國務卿推薦,聘請他擔任幕僚。
張倩紅(譯者)
猶太文化研究專傢,中國中東學會常務理事,中國世界民族學會常務理事,中國世界現代史研究會理事,河南大學副校長。其在猶太學領域所作的貢獻獲得國內外學術界的廣泛認可,是首位在劍橋大學Journal of Jewish Studies上發錶論文的亞洲學者,也是2008年以色列六十周年國慶大典上兩位接到佩雷斯邀請的中國學者之一。
馬丹靜(譯者)
法學博士,畢業於中國社會科學院俄羅斯東歐中亞研究所,現為河南大學猶太—以色列研究中心研究人員,主要從事猶太—以色列史研究。
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曆史的洪流與文明的熔爐:一部關於現代世界的深刻洞察 《權力的遊戲:民族國傢的崛起與全球秩序的重塑》 這部宏大的曆史敘事,聚焦於自18世紀啓濛運動以來,塑造我們今日世界格局的民族國傢(Nation-State)概念是如何誕生、演變並最終主宰全球政治版圖的進程。它不僅僅是一部關於政治事件的編年史,更是一次對權力結構、身份認同以及意識形態衝突的深度挖掘。 全書分為四個相互關聯且層層遞進的部分,構建瞭一個從區域性衝突走嚮全球性互聯的復雜畫捲。 第一部分:舊秩序的崩塌與新哲學的萌芽(約1750-1848年) 本部分細緻描繪瞭歐洲舊王朝體係(如哈布斯堡、波旁王朝)在啓濛思想的衝擊下,如何逐漸失去其神聖性和閤法性。核心關注點在於:“人民”這一概念如何被提煉齣來,並取代瞭“君主”成為國傢主權的新來源。 我們將深入探討盧梭、孟德斯鳩等思想傢如何為民族主義奠定理論基石。重點分析瞭法國大革命並非僅僅是推翻一個王室的事件,而是首次大規模嘗試將一種共享的文化、語言和曆史敘事轉化為具有排他性的政治實體——民族國傢的模闆。通過對早期德意誌邦國和意大利城邦知識分子活動的考察,揭示瞭文化精英如何在民間推廣“共同的過去”和“共同的未來”的構想。 本部分將詳細審視1815年維也納會議的“均勢外交”如何試圖壓製民族主義的火苗,以及這種壓製在1848年“民族之春”中如何被徹底打破。它探討瞭浪漫主義思潮(對民間傳說和語言的狂熱推崇)如何成為民族身份構建的有力工具,預示著現代身份政治的初露端倪。 第二部分:帝國主義的擴張與內部的張力(約1848-1914年) 隨著民族國傢的正式建立,接踵而至的是其內在的擴張衝動與外部的殖民競賽。本部分的核心是剖析 “國傢利益最大化” 邏輯如何驅動瞭新一輪的帝國主義浪潮。 敘事將圍繞俾斯麥的鐵血手腕,展示一個統一的、工業化的德意誌如何徹底打破歐洲大陸的平衡。這部分將詳細分析現代官僚體係、普及教育和大眾媒體是如何被國傢用以塑造順從且具有愛國精神的公民的。例如,分析義務教育課程中如何係統地篩選和重構曆史敘事,以強化對本民族優越性的信念。 同時,本書並沒有迴避民族國傢內部的深刻矛盾。對於邊緣群體、少數民族以及新興階級的壓迫與同化,被置於顯微鏡下審視。本部分深入探討瞭早期社會達爾文主義和科學種族主義的興起,這些理論是如何被用來閤理化對內外的等級劃分和剝削的。我們探究瞭歐洲列強如何在“白人的負擔”的幌子下,瓜分非洲和亞洲,而這些殖民地的抵抗與反殖民思想的萌芽,也為後來的全球動蕩埋下瞭伏筆。 第三部分:兩次世界大戰與意識形態的對決(約1914-1945年) 這一部分是關於民族國傢體係的“自我毀滅”傾嚮的集中展示。世界大戰並非簡單的領土爭端,而是不同版本的民族國傢意識形態——自由民主製、法西斯主義和布爾什維剋共産主義——之間為爭奪全球主導權而展開的殊死搏鬥。 本書對凡爾賽體係的分析極其深刻,指齣其在處理戰敗國和新成立國傢(如南斯拉夫、捷剋斯洛伐剋)民族問題上的根本性缺陷,即未能解決“沒有國傢的民族”與“多民族的國傢”之間的結構性矛盾。 重點章節將分析納粹德國的“種族民族主義”(Rassen-Nationalismus)如何將排他性推嚮瞭極端的種族滅絕實踐,這標誌著民族國傢構建的邏輯發展到瞭最黑暗的頂點。同時,對比分析斯大林治下的蘇聯,探究其如何以“階級”為旗幟,行“大俄羅斯沙文主義”之實的復雜操作。 第四部分:冷戰的遺産與全球化的睏境(約1945年至今) 二戰結束後,世界進入瞭兩極對峙階段。本部分關注美國主導的“自由國際秩序”與蘇聯陣營的對抗,這本質上是兩種不同形態的全球治理體係的競爭。本書探討瞭去殖民化運動如何催生齣大量新的民族國傢,但這些國傢卻往往被嵌入到冷戰的代理人衝突中,其內部的族群裂痕被外部力量加劇。 冷戰結束後,人們曾預言民族國傢的黃昏即將來臨,但事實恰恰相反。隨著全球化浪潮的加速,對文化安全、邊境控製和身份認同的焦慮感空前高漲。本書的最後幾章,專注於分析“去中心化的衝突”。 從巴爾乾半島的破碎,到中東地區基於宗教和部落的權力真空,再到當代社交媒體如何助推“數字部落主義”和政治極化,本書展示瞭民族國傢這一工具的雙重性:它既是抵抗全球資本和文化同質化的最後堡壘,又是滋生排外情緒和新形式隔離主義的溫床。 結語: 《權力的遊戲》沒有提供簡單的答案,而是迫使讀者直麵一個核心睏境:我們是否能設計齣一種超越排他性民族主義,同時又能提供穩定身份認同的現代政治組織形式?這是一部理解當代國際關係、政治地理學和身份政治糾葛的必讀之作。它猶如一束強光,照亮瞭我們腳下這片由曆史、文化和野心交織而成的復雜土地。