Makes clear that the emotions binding such of the faiths to Jerusalem have grown even more powerful when a community's link to the city has been reestablished.

Includes maps of: Ancient Near East; Ancient Jerusalem; Ancient Canaan; Saul's Kingdom of Israel; Jerusalem under David and Solomon; Kingdom of David; Kingdoms of Israel and Judah; Jerusalem during the First Temple Period; Jerusalem and Judah after 722 B.C.E.; Jerusalem and the Province of Yehud during the Persian Period; Jerusalem at the Time of Nehemiah; Hasmonean Kingdom; Jerusalem in the Hasmonean Period; Herodian Jerusalem; Herodian Temple Area; Roman Palestine; Aelia Capitolina, 135-326; Byzantine Jerusalem, 326-638; [Sacred Geography Medieval Map of the World]; Renaissance Map of Palestine; Madaba Mosaic Map [of Jerusalem]; Muslim Jerusalem, 638-1099; Noble Sanctuary, al-Haram al-Sharif; Crusader Jerusalem, 1099-1187; Islamization of Jerusaelem under the Ayyubids, 1187-1250; Development in Mamluk Jerusalem, 1250-1517; Development of the Haram under the Malmuks; Patterns of Settlement outside the Walls in the 19th Century; Areas of Settlement, 1947; City Boundary, 1948-1967; Frontiers of the State of Israel, 1949-1967; Divided Jerusalem, 1948-1967; Frontiers, 1967; Municipal Borders of Jerusalem; Building beyond the Armistice Line since 1967.

Zion -- Israel -- City of David -- City of Judah -- Exile and return -- Antioch in Judaea -- Destruction -- Aelia Capitolina -- The new Jerusalem -- Christian holy city -- Bayt Al-Maqdis -- Al-Quds -- Crusade -- Jihad -- Ottoman city -- Revival -- Israel -- Zion?