TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kingsley,Sean
TI  - God's gold: a quest for the lost temple treasures of Jerusalem 
SN  - 9780060854003
AV  - BM 655 .K56 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - HarperCollins
KW  - Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
KW  - History
KW  - sears
KW  - Treasure troves
KW  - Jerusalem
KW  - Buried treasure
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Palestine
KW  - Antiquities
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1308/2007298009-b.html
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