沿着耶稣的足迹，探寻其布道的历程——从出生地伯利恒，到成长之所加利利，直至他度过最后时光的大卫之城耶路撒冷。 画面栩栩如生，圣迹历历在目。想要真切地感受《圣经》中的场景，就让我们一起踏上这独一无二的圣地之旅吧! 本书通过100幅精美绝伦的照片，引领读者从伯利恒、加利利到耶路撒冷，参观各种遗址、小径、道路及圣经中的各种场景，诠释耶稣在圣地的故事。

本书作者是以色列政府的高级官员，本书一本从以色列的立场全方位阐述耶路撒冷问题的专著，作者强调，耶路撒冷是古代以色列的遗产，与现代以色列的诞生有着密切关系。本书还梳理了美国布什、奥巴马政府对中东和耶路撒冷的政策。本书的观点不一定符合我们的立场，但是它对于我们分析耶路撒冷问题、看清以色列的立场提供了重要依据。

作为人类最早居住的地区之一，三大宗教的发源地，被称作圣地的地区是近东区域的一块多丘陵地带，面积小得出奇，历史悠久且多变故。从公元前13世纪末以色列人出现于迦南到基督教的早期年代，这一时期是圣地历史中最引人注意的时期。长期以来，《圣经》是了解这一时期的主要来源。考古学家近年来的发现为了解圣地的这一段以及更遥远的过去提供了新的视角和观点。 凯尼恩对约书亚的故事抱有强烈的好奇心，并有浓厚的举考察证实或否定它的可能性。不过耶城极其古老，这一点本身更令她着迷。在其后的几年间她集中力量考察耶利哥的历史，一直追溯到最早的定居情况。

本书荟萃了世界各地有关耶路撒冷历史与文化的艺术品。兴味盎然的历史文本与绮丽迷人的艺术品交织在一起，使耶路撒冷展现出真实与想象、物质与精神交相辉映的独特魅力，为人们开启了一扇洞窥耶路撒冷神秘内涵的窗口。除了那些考古学家们发掘出来的同时代的历史遗物，编入本书各章的有关历史方面的图像作品，同样为我们提供了东西方文化对耶路撒冷这一特殊地方的原初的理解。

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.