耶路撒冷三千年 (2011)

《耶路撒冷三千年》（英语：Jerusalem: The Biography）是英国历史学家兼作家赛门·蒙蒂菲奥里所著的非虚构历史书籍，于2011年1月27日出版。此书是2011年的畅销书之一。《耶路撒冷三千年》的繁体中文译本由究竟出版社发行于2013年3月28日，黄煜文翻译。简体中文版于2015年1月由民主与建设出版社发行，张倩红、马丹静合译。

内容概述

作者在此书中不仅结合自己搜集的资料和毕生所学，还借鉴了最新的学术研究成果，勾勒出耶路撒冷神圣与神秘的特性，它的本质和历史。许多人相信耶路撒冷就是迎接末世天启之地。蒙蒂菲奥里以编年体来安排此书的写作，从大卫王首次将耶路撒冷设立为王国都城开始讲述，直到1967年的第三次中东战争，并附有一篇记载近期事件的后记。作者在此书引言中写道：“只有以编年体叙事法来写作，才能避免以当代的眼光去看待过往。”

衍生作品

蒙蒂菲奥里作为主持人出演了一套基于此书改编的3集纪录片《耶路撒冷：圣城的诞生》（英文原名：Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City），这套纪录片于2011年12月8日在英国广播公司第四台首播。

评价

2017年“世界阅读日”，中华民国蔡英文总统于脸书推荐此书。

Jerusalem: The Biography is a 2011 bestselling non-fiction book by British popular historian and writer Simon Sebag Montefiore.

Synopsis

Montefiore chose to organize Jerusalem chronologically, stretching it from King David's establishment of the city as his capital (the Proto-Canaanite and Canaanite-Egyptian periods are briefly mentioned) to the 1967 Six-Day War, with an epilogue pondering on more recent events. In the introduction, the author explains that "it is only by chronological narrative that one avoids the temptation to see the past through the obsessions of the present."

The author narrates the history of Jerusalem as the centre of world history, but does not intend the book as an encyclopaedia of every aspect of this ancient city, nor as a guidebook of every niche, capital and archway in every building. At the beginning of his book, Montefiore clearly explains that neither does he intend to provide a history of Judaism, Christianity or Islam, nor a study of the nature of God in Jerusalem: for these he remands elsewhere, to a plethora of other publications. His task, Montefiore affirms, is to pursue the facts, not to adjudicate between the mysteries of different religions or the secular reasons behind historical events: Jerusalem is a synthesis based on a wide reading of the primary sources, ancient and modern, on personal seminars with specialists, professors, archaeologists, families and statesmen, and on the author's multiple visits to Jerusalem, the shrines and archaeological digs.

In December 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore presented on BBC Four a three-part history of Jerusalem, based on his book and by the title Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City.

Awards

2011: National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Book of the Year