Jerusalem in Memory and Eschatology

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  • ISBN 9781350505735
  • Weight: 520g
  • Dimensions: 164 x 238mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Jul 2025
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Investigating a range of eschatological ideologies, this volume explores the connection
between notions of sacred space and time in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim understandings
of Jerusalem.

The recognition of Jerusalem as a holy city both unites and divides Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam. While these three religious traditions share a reverence for the same ancient city, this
veneration leads more often to tension and violence than to commonality and cooperation.

Each of these religions draws heavily from religious memory and eschatological prophecies,
and sees Jerusalem as a site of past and future upheaval; however, the distinctions in their
visions imbue Jerusalem with meanings that reinforce conflicting and contested ideologies.
Offering multiple analyses of religious interpretations of the city and its sacred sites, this
volume explores these divergent visions of the remembered and anticipated Jerusalem.

Emma O’Donnell Polyakov is a fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland and Associate Professor of the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion at Merrimack College, USA. She is also the author of The Nun in the Synagogue: Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel (2020) and Remembering the Future: The Experience of Time in Jewish and Christian Liturgy (2015), and the editor of Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Interreligious Hermeneutics (2018).

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