Jerusalem Factsheet: Toward a Negotiated Solution for the Holy City

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Jerusalem Factsheet:
Toward a Negotiated Solution for the Holy City
http://www.cmep.org/documents/Jerusalem_FactSheet.htm​

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Historical Significance​

Jerusalem was a Canaanite (Jebusite) city for over 1000 years before it was conquered by King David, probably around 1000 B.C., and made the capital of the Hebrew state. The Babylonian conquest and destruction of Jerusalem and Solomon’s Temple in 586 B.C. was followed by Persian rule and the return from exile in Babylonia of the Judeans who built the Second Temple in 516. With the conquest of Judea by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C., the Hellenistic era began and lasted until the Roman general Pompey captured the city in 63 B.C. The teaching of Jesus Christ and his crucifixion in Jerusalem took place under Roman rule. In 70 A.D., the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Second Temple which had been rebuilt by Herod. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was built in 335 A.D. during the Byzantine period. The Muslim period began in 638 A.D. and, except for the Crusader era (1099-1187), Jerusalem remained under Muslim rule until the defeat of the Ottoman Empire. The Muslims’ Dome of the Rock was built in 691-692 A.D. on the place where Abraham is believed by Jews and Christians to have bound his son Isaac for sacrifice and is also the site of the first and second Jewish temples.
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