MES 7.03 Jerusalem: Vision and Reality
Jerusalem has always mesmerized minds -- Royal City of Solomon, mystical core of the world, site of a foretold apocalypse, twice rased to the ground, focus of Jewish messianic dreams, since 1948 once more a Jewish capital but still savagely fought over. In this course, we will sample the symbolism of Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian and Islamic intellectual and artistic expression, from the Bible down to the present. Why has this city evoked such passions?
Instructor
Glinert