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100 1 _aKingsley, Sean.
245 1 0 _aGod's gold :
_ba quest for the lost temple treasures of Jerusalem /
_cSean Kingsley.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York, NY :
_bHarperCollins,
_cc2007.
300 _axv, 318 p., [16] p. of plates :
_bill., maps ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-308) and index.
505 0 _aRiver 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.
520 _aTraces 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.
546 _aEnglish.
650 0 _aTreasure troves
_zJerusalem
_xHistory.
610 2 0 _aTemple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
651 0 _aPalestine
_xAntiquities.
610 2 7 _aTemple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
_xHistory.
_2sears
650 7 _aBuried treasure
_xReligious aspects
_xJudaism.
_2sears
650 7 _aCultural property
_zJerusalem.
_2sears
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856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
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