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FYS: Jerusalem the Holy: Books

Books about Jerusalem

Finding Scholarly Books

The library catalog is the place to locate scholarly books and ebooks in religious studies.  To display only ebook results, make sure you select "available online" and "books" in the filters on the left side of the page.  

You can also use an * and OR to expand your results, as shown below

  • Pray*= pray, prayer, prays, prayers, praying, etc...
  • islam* OR muslim* means any variation of either islam, islams, islamic, muslim, mulims, etc... is an appropriate search result.

Call Numbers

The majority of books you will need for this course will be shelved on Wilson 1, and will be concentrated in the the DS101-151 (Israel/Palestine history) and BM, BP, and BR-BX (Judaism, Islam, Christianity) sections.  Here are some more specific call number areas, use these to browse for topic ideas or to browse for titles you might have missed using other search techniques.

DS101-151- Israel (Palestine), The Jews

DS109- Jerusalem

DS109.25-.32- Temple Mount

DS109.32 R6- Dome of the Rock

DS109.4- Church of the Holy Sepulchre

DS109.9- General history

DS109.93-.95- History post 1917

DS119.7-Jewish-Arab relations, Arab-Israeli conflict- to 1993

DS119.76- Arab-Israeli conflict- from 1993

DS119.765- Al-Aqsa Intifada- 2000-

BM- Judaism

BM150-449- History

BM585-585..4- Controversial works against the Jews

BM590-591- Jewish works against Christianity and Islam

BM648- Apologetics

BP- Islam

BP50-68- History

BP169- Works against Islam and the Qur-an

BP170- Works in defense of Islam, Islamic apologetics

BP171-173- Relation of Islam to other religions

BR- Christianity

BR127- Relation of Christianity to other religions

BR130-133.5- Christian antiquities, archaeology

BR140-1500- History

BT- Christian doctrinal theology

BT1095-1255- Apologetics

NA4590-5621- Religious architecture