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	Jerusalem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A large number of places of have religious significance for these religions, among which the Western Wall, Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
		By the end of the First Temple period, Jerusalem was the sole acting religious shrine in the kingdom, and a center of regular pilgrimage.
		Jerusalem plays an important role in three major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as in a number of smaller religious groups.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerusalem (3763 words)

	Jerusalem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the end of the First Temple period, Jerusalem was the sole acting religious shrine in the kingdom and a center of regular pilgrimage.
		A large number of places of have religious significance for these religions, among which the Western Wall, Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
		Jerusalem plays an important role in three major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as in a number of smaller religious groups.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerusalem (3738 words)

	Jerusalem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A large number of places of have religious significance for these religions, among which the Western Wall, Al-Aqsa Mosque, and Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
		By the end of the First Temple period, Jerusalem was the sole acting religious shrine in the kingdom and a center of regular pilgrimage.
		Jerusalem plays an important role in three major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as in a number of smaller religious groups.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerusalem (3577 words)

	Jerusalem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jerusalem plays an important role in three major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as in a number of smaller religious groups.
		A large number of places of have religious significance for these religions, among which the Western Wall, Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
		By the end of the First Temple period, Jerusalem was the sole acting religious shrine in the kingdom and a center of regular pilgrimage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerusalem (3738 words)

	The Next Revolution
		It owes its origin to the Hospitalers of Jerusalem, that wholly religious and charitable Order which was established at Jerusalem, in 1048, by pious merchants of Amalfi for the succor of poor and distressed Latin pilgrims....
		According to the World Book Encyclopedia, "Saint Michael was the patron saint of (Scottish) knights." We refer the reader to The Rosicrucian Connection to discover the significance of "Saint Michael" in bringing the Antichrist to power.
		Rather than suppress us all, we might give them their freedom,' said Reverend Robertson." To which John Machate, Coordinator of the Military Pagan Network, responded: "Religious tolerance is the price of religious freedom for all.
	www.watch.pair.com /megiddo.html (3738 words)

	Jerusalem - Background and History
		Early Jewish History: Jerusalem's national and political significance to the Jewish people commences with its conquest by David, who united the Israelite tribes, became king and made Jerusalem the political and administrative seat of his kingdom around 1000 BCE.
		Mohammed and his followers initially turned to Jerusalem in prayer and although the direction was later changed towards Mecca, the sanctity of Jerusalem continued to be stressed in Islamic tradition.
		The capture of Jerusalem in 638, during the reign of the second Caliph Omar, brought the city into the "dar al-Islam" the jurisdiction of Islam.
	www.adl.org /Israel/final_status/jerusalem_2.asp (960 words)

	Michel Sabbah, Patriarch Jerusalem - Questions and Answers on Justice and Peace in Our Holy Land
		Jerusalem is at the center of the conflict because of its place in the religious and historical memories of two peoples, Palestinians and Jews, and of the three religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
		Since Jerusalem is at the heart of the conflict, and since the majority of holy places, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim are found there, this adds a religious dimension to the conflict.
		All the churches of Jerusalem have together affirmed their position on Jerusalem in the common memorandum of 23 November 1994 on the significance of Jerusalem for Christians.
	www.sedos.org /english/justice.html (960 words)

	Jerusalem - Background and History
		The city's eternal spiritual and religious significance to the Jewish people was strengthened when David's son, King Solomon, constructed the Temple on the spot in Jewish tradition where Abraham expressed his willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac to God.
		Early Jewish History: Jerusalem's national and political significance to the Jewish people commences with its conquest by David, who united the Israelite tribes, became king and made Jerusalem the political and administrative seat of his kingdom around 1000 BCE.
		Mohammed and his followers initially turned to Jerusalem in prayer and although the direction was later changed towards Mecca, the sanctity of Jerusalem continued to be stressed in Islamic tradition.
	www.adl.org /Israel/final_status/jerusalem_2.asp (960 words)

	Jerusalem - Background and History
		Early Jewish History: Jerusalem's national and political significance to the Jewish people commences with its conquest by David, who united the Israelite tribes, became king and made Jerusalem the political and administrative seat of his kingdom around 1000 BCE.
		Mohammed and his followers initially turned to Jerusalem in prayer and although the direction was later changed towards Mecca, the sanctity of Jerusalem continued to be stressed in Islamic tradition.
		The capture of Jerusalem in 638, during the reign of the second Caliph Omar, brought the city into the "dar al-Islam" the jurisdiction of Islam.
	www.adl.org /Israel/final_status/jerusalem_2.asp (960 words)

	OU Celebrates Jerusalem Day with Special Website Program Featuring Remarks by Executive Vice President and International Director on Religious and Political Significance of Israel's Capital - May 23, 2003 - OUPR - OU.ORG
		Jerusalem is the symbol of this unity,Â” Rabbi Weinreb explains.
		Rabbi WeinrebÂ’s remarks, together with those of Betty Ehrenberg, OU Director of International and Communal Affairs, are highlights of the website section, along with virtual tours of Jerusalem, photos of the capture of the Temple Mount by the Israel Defense Forces on June 5, 1967, and many opportunities for study among a variety of features.
		That achievement of the Six-Day War, commemorated annually on Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day), will be observed this year on Thursday night, May 29th, and Friday, May 30 in OU synagogues.
	www.ou.org /oupr/2003/yomyer03.htm (960 words)

	Jerusalem
		Jerusalem's rich history and religious significance have attracted many archaeologists seeking relics of the past and a clearer picture of the life and times of the early inhabitants.
		Jerusalem is really a city made up of individual communities, each built on a hill or cluster of hills and separated from neighboring areas by valleys or rocky slopes.
		Jerusalem is more than just a physical grouping of stone buildings and ancient walls spreading out over the Judean hills: it is the Holy City, symbol of universal peace and redemption for over 3,000 years.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/100/places/jer.html (5187 words)

	Oh Jerusalem!
		While Jerusalem is certainly a physical reality, a holy city revered by Muslims, Jews and Christians, with potent religious and historical significance, it is also an ideal.
		I discovered that the Bishop of Jerusalem who conferred his blessings and patronage on our school scout troop was an alumnus of the school.
		But the Bishop of Jerusalem (whoever he was) had picked us specially.
	www.booksourcemonthly.com /recent0112.shtml (5187 words)

	The Second Temple
		Evidence of this is the positive references to the Temple and its religious significance in Sirach, Letter of Aristeas and the writings of Philo of Alexander (Spec.
		The Jerusalem Temple was situated on top of the Temple Mount, also known as Mt. Moriah.
		To the west of the Temple was the Tyropoeon valley and to the south and east was the Kidron valley, possible identical to the Hinnom valley (Gehinnom).
	www.abu.nb.ca /courses/NTIntro/JerusalTempl4.htm (5187 words)

	Jerusalem
		But the restoration of Jerusalem, both as a national and religious centre, became a dominant theme in much of Jewish worship and ritual, symbolizing both survival of the nation and fidelity to the Torah, and indeed eventually encompassing hopes for the messianic era, when Jews would be restored to Zion and Zion to the Jews.
		Unlike Jews and Christians for whom Jerusalem has an unparalleled significance as a theological symbol and historical icon, Muslims deny the historicity of ancient Jerusalem, discounting it as a Zionist myth,� not to speak of the spiritual meaning of the Holy City to Judaism and Christianity.
		Jerusalem is the spiritual core of Judaism and the theological hub of Christianity; neither faith could survive without relating to Jerusalem, the City of Peace and the place where God�s glory will manifest at the End of Days.
	www.buffalo-israel-link.org /joel8.htm (5187 words)

	Making Sense of the Middle East - books
		In Beirut the reader meets the religious factions that antagonize and ally and gets a sense of the historical significance of Middle Eastern struggle.
		Back in Washington, Friedman synthesizes the whole of his experiences in Beirut and Jerusalem, organizing the snapshots he has shown his readers as he turns from tour guide to political policy analyst.
		From Beirut to Jerusalem addresses the intellectual, political, and popular audience, making clear that the conflicts in the Middle East are 1) not new and 2) not simple.
	www.versusmag.org /media/paper584/news/2002/07/29/Books/Making.Sense.Of.The.Middle.East-281751.shtml (429 words)

	JesusKnowledge
		The surprise is rather that Jesus regarded his death, the death of a Galilean outcast, as the means of God's new covenant of redemption, quite aside from the Temple establishment in Jerusalem.
		The prophetic tradition of the Hebrew scriptures is crowned by the messianic biography of the four Christian gospels: the evangelistic biography of Jesus of Nazareth (on the status of ancient biography, see Burridge 1992; on the origin and significance of the fourfold gospel, see Burridge 1994; Stanton 1997).
		Jesus Christ, with a confidence that to the timid traditionalism of His time appeared blasphemous, asserted that He knew the Father and was prepared to let others into that knowledge.
	www.luc.edu /faculty/pmoser/idolanon/JesusKno.html (8548 words)

	Who Owns Jerusalem?
		Jerusalem is in the news these days way out proportion to the size or economic significance of this relatively small city in the hills of the tiny nation of Israel.
		Arafat said the move was part of a broader Israeli effort to "Judaize Jerusalem" at the expense of Muslim religious claims in the city.
		Jerusalem is not simply the capital of a kingdom that must fight against other kingdom* of the world for survival.
	www.ldolphin.org /psalm2.html (17411 words)

	Temple of Jerusalem
		It was destroyed nearly 2000 years ago, and yet the Temple of Jerusalem--cultural memory, symbol, and site--remains one of the most powerful, and most contested, buildings in the world.
		A complex and engaging history of a singular locus of the imagination--a site of longing for the Jews; a central metaphor of Christian thought; an icon for Muslims: the Dome of the Rock--The Temple of Jerusalem also offers unique insight into where Judaism, Christianity, and Islam differ in interpreting their shared inheritance.
		Goldhill travels across cultural and temporal boundaries to convey the full extent of the Temple's impact on religious, artistic, and scholarly imaginations.
	www.globecorner.com /t/t40/20232.php (241 words)

	Jerusalem Religious Aspects - Second Edition
		Consequently, for members of both faith, holy places take on a double significance : they are focal points of religious and political identity at one and the same time.
		Two such principles which seem to be essential if a holy place is to fulfill its proper role and function, are freedom of access to a holy place for those who revere it and freedom of worship for all at their respective holy sites or houses of worship.
		The Hebrew bible explicitly refers to Jerusalem by name some 700 times, and to the corollary name “Zion” (which properly indicates the Temple Mount, and later came to indicate Jerusalem as the capital city, and eventually the Holy Land as a whole) some 150 times.
	www.passia.org /meetings/rsunit/religasp-Yitzhak.htm (241 words)

	Focus On Jerusalem, Library
		Jerusalem is in the news these days way out proportion to the size or economic significance of this relatively small city in the hills of the tiny nation of Israel.
		Arafat said the move was part of a broader Israeli effort to "Judaize Jerusalem" at the expense of Muslim religious claims in the city.
		It has walls and gates; the gates bear the names of the twelve tribes of Israel and the foundations bear the names of the twelve apostles, for there is no longer any division of the people of God (vv.
	focusonjerusalem.com /whoownsjerusalem.html (11026 words)

	PRIORY OF SION: THE FACTS, THE THEORIES, THE MYSTERY
		In 1312, during the Council of Vienne, the Pope (who was in Philip's "pocket"), dissolved the Templars as a religious order.
		Sulpicius, who Saint-Sulpice is named after, was the hagiogapher of St. Martin of Tours, a saint who one guidebook says "is frequently associated with places of sacred toponymical significance," as well as pagan tree-cults.
		Although the Order de Sion and the Knights Templar parted ways, at least according to the "prieure documents", in 1188, they still seem to have had some sort of interconnection, and some artefacts, knowledge, documents, etc. relating to the current 'mystery' seem to have remained in the Templars' possession.
	www.fiu.edu /~mizrachs/poseur3.html (9851 words)

	PASSIA: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs - Jerusalem
		Religious design may still posit Jerusalem as the terrestrial gateway to the divine world, for example, through the story of Muhammad's night journey and ascension, a tradition whose significance seems universally unappreciated.
		Especially given the unique way in which Jerusalem is regarded by followers of these religious, both in terms of its role in the past as well as in terms of its status in the future, it is incumbent on the contending parties to pursue a course of convergence and harmonisation.
		The religious claims of the three monotheistic religions to Jerusalem are each unique with their own special attributes which cherish different places in the city.
	www.passia.org /jerusalem/publications/religiousaspectstext.htm (15086 words)

	PASSIA: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs - Jerusalem
		Religious design may still posit Jerusalem as the terrestrial gateway to the divine world, for example, through the story of Muhammad's night journey and ascension, a tradition whose significance seems universally unappreciated.
		Especially given the unique way in which Jerusalem is regarded by followers of these religious, both in terms of its role in the past as well as in terms of its status in the future, it is incumbent on the contending parties to pursue a course of convergence and harmonisation.
		The religious claims of the three monotheistic religions to Jerusalem are each unique with their own special attributes which cherish different places in the city.
	www.passia.org /jerusalem/publications/religiousaspectstext.htm (15086 words)

	PASSIA: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs - Jerusalem
		Religious design may still posit Jerusalem as the terrestrial gateway to the divine world, for example, through the story of Muhammad's night journey and ascension, a tradition whose significance seems universally unappreciated.
		Especially given the unique way in which Jerusalem is regarded by followers of these religious, both in terms of its role in the past as well as in terms of its status in the future, it is incumbent on the contending parties to pursue a course of convergence and harmonisation.
		The religious claims of the three monotheistic religions to Jerusalem are each unique with their own special attributes which cherish different places in the city.
	www.passia.org /jerusalem/publications/religiousaspectstext.htm (15086 words)

	PASSIA: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs - Jerusalem
		Religious design may still posit Jerusalem as the terrestrial gateway to the divine world, for example, through the story of Muhammad's night journey and ascension, a tradition whose significance seems universally unappreciated.
		Especially given the unique way in which Jerusalem is regarded by followers of these religious, both in terms of its role in the past as well as in terms of its status in the future, it is incumbent on the contending parties to pursue a course of convergence and harmonisation.
		The religious claims of the three monotheistic religions to Jerusalem are each unique with their own special attributes which cherish different places in the city.
	www.passia.org /jerusalem/publications/religiousaspectstext.htm (15086 words)

	PASSIA: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs - Jerusalem
		Religious design may still posit Jerusalem as the terrestrial gateway to the divine world, for example, through the story of Muhammad's night journey and ascension, a tradition whose significance seems universally unappreciated.
		Especially given the unique way in which Jerusalem is regarded by followers of these religious, both in terms of its role in the past as well as in terms of its status in the future, it is incumbent on the contending parties to pursue a course of convergence and harmonisation.
		The religious claims of the three monotheistic religions to Jerusalem are each unique with their own special attributes which cherish different places in the city.
	www.passia.org /jerusalem/publications/religiousaspectstext.htm (15086 words)

	U.S. Church Council Petitions Israel to Return Armenian Church Property
		Of great historical and spiritual significance to Armenians worldwide, it includes an Armenian Church administrative and training center, religious retreat and archaeological site.
		The site’s olive trees, some of them 500 years old, by custom have supplied the oil used in lamps at the traditional tomb of Christ at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and also at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, revered as the traditional birthplace of Christ.
		cc: President George W. Bush; Secretary Colin Powell; His Beatitude Archbishop Torkom Manoogian, Patriarch; His Eminence Archbishop Barsamian; Mr.
	www.ncccusa.org /news/02news72.html (15086 words)

	PASSIA: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs - Jerusalem
		Religious design may still posit Jerusalem as the terrestrial gateway to the divine world, for example, through the story of Muhammad's night journey and ascension, a tradition whose significance seems universally unappreciated.
		Especially given the unique way in which Jerusalem is regarded by followers of these religious, both in terms of its role in the past as well as in terms of its status in the future, it is incumbent on the contending parties to pursue a course of convergence and harmonisation.
		The religious claims of the three monotheistic religions to Jerusalem are each unique with their own special attributes which cherish different places in the city.
	www.passia.org /jerusalem/publications/religiousaspectstext.htm (15086 words)

	MAYORS TRAVEL TO ISRAEL
		According to Squadron, While having specific religious significance, Jerusalem is currently a modern thriving metropolis, home to a diverse population.
		The mayors will tour Jerusalem s Christian, Jewish and Moslem holy sites; meet with new immigrants at a Hebrew language ulpan class; and visit a variety of innovative industrial and entrepreneurial ventures, both in Jerusalem and around the country.
		Working sessions with conference host Ehud Olmert, Mayor of Jerusalem, will include How to Preserve the Uniqueness of Cities, The Role of Heritage and History in Planning for the Future, and City Hall Complex: The Jerusalem Working Model.
	www.ajcongress.org /pages/RELS1997/APR97REL/apr_003.htm (15086 words)

	Oh Jerusalem!
		While Jerusalem is certainly a physical reality, a holy city revered by Muslims, Jews and Christians, with potent religious and historical significance, it is also an ideal.
		There are remarkable similarities between the present Jewish state of Israel, and the medieval Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, established by the Crusaders.
		I discovered that the Bishop of Jerusalem who conferred his blessings and patronage on our school scout troop was an alumnus of the school.
	www.booksourcemonthly.com /recent0112.shtml (2990 words)

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