God's gold : a quest for the lost temple treasures of Jerusalem / Sean Kingsley.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : HarperCollins, c2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 318 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780060854003
  • 0060854006
  • 071956803X (hbk.)
  • 9780719568039 (hbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BM 655 .K56 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
River of gold -- Awakenings -- Ghosts of Israel past -- Exodus and exile -- Herod's treasure chest -- Dark secrets in the Vatican -- Temple prophecies -- Volcano of hate -- Keeping the faith? -- Benjamin of Tudela -- The philosopher's folly -- Dead sea treasures -- Castles in the Air -- Divine light: the Menorah -- Hunting graven images -- The tree of life -- Bread of Heaven -- Trumpeting messages -- City of unbrotherly love -- Turning the screw -- Death of a temple -- Flavian spin -- Walking with God -- A word from the sponsors -- Aliens in Rome -- Of circuses and artichokes -- The triumphal way -- A day at the circus maximus -- A temple for peace -- Jewish gold, barbarian loot -- Heresy and holocaust -- Keeping the faith -- In a Vandal palace -- Treasures recycled -- Hunting hippodromes -- Imperial war games -- Sanctuary of the Christians -- Desert city of saints -- City of gold, world of man.
Summary: Traces an archaeologist's search for the ancient Jerusalem Temple treasure, a fifty-ton cache of gold, silver, and jeweled relics for which the author researched nearly two millennia of history and embarked on a series of labyrinthine quests.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-308) and index.

River of gold -- Awakenings -- Ghosts of Israel past -- Exodus and exile -- Herod's treasure chest -- Dark secrets in the Vatican -- Temple prophecies -- Volcano of hate -- Keeping the faith? -- Benjamin of Tudela -- The philosopher's folly -- Dead sea treasures -- Castles in the Air -- Divine light: the Menorah -- Hunting graven images -- The tree of life -- Bread of Heaven -- Trumpeting messages -- City of unbrotherly love -- Turning the screw -- Death of a temple -- Flavian spin -- Walking with God -- A word from the sponsors -- Aliens in Rome -- Of circuses and artichokes -- The triumphal way -- A day at the circus maximus -- A temple for peace -- Jewish gold, barbarian loot -- Heresy and holocaust -- Keeping the faith -- In a Vandal palace -- Treasures recycled -- Hunting hippodromes -- Imperial war games -- Sanctuary of the Christians -- Desert city of saints -- City of gold, world of man.

Traces an archaeologist's search for the ancient Jerusalem Temple treasure, a fifty-ton cache of gold, silver, and jeweled relics for which the author researched nearly two millennia of history and embarked on a series of labyrinthine quests.

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