基本信息出版社：John Murray
页码：352 页
出版日期：2007年07月
ISBN：0719568048
条形码：9780719568046
版本：2007-07-28
装帧：平装
开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
外文书名：迷失的耶路撒冷寺庙

内容简介 Book Description
"God's Gold" charts the fate of the greatest religious treasure in history, the key symbols of the Jewish faith - looted from the Temple of Jerusalem. The golden candelabrum, silver trumpets and bejewelled table were ransacked by the Roman emperor Vespasian in AD 70. They were cast adrift in Mediterranean lands, which saw 550 years of turbulent history and the rule of four different civilisations. Now, only an intriguing trail of clues remains as to their whereabouts. The Temple treasure is an immeasurably precious hoard, but it has yet greater significance as a symbol of man's communications with God. The gold is central to Israel's dreams for messianic redemption and it's discovery could signify the return to an age of biblical sacrifice. Using untapped historical texts and new archaeological sources, Sean Kingsley reveals the incredible history of this treasure, its composition and religious, political and financial meaning across the ages. Unexpected discoveries send him on a physical pilgrimage to trace the treasure's destiny, which exposes facts more astonishing than fiction.

Book Dimension
length: (cm)19.3 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.8
作者简介 Sean Kingsley is a London-based archaeologist. He specialises in the Holy Land, where he discovered and researched the largest cluster of ancient shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean. He is Managing Editor of Minerva, the International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology, and Visiting Fellow at the Research Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at the Reading University. He writes for various popular magazines. This is his sixth book.