book, Jerusalem Jerusalem

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/03/08/james-carrolls-jerusalem-jerusalem-the-earthly-and-the-heavenily-the-mundane-and-the-imagined

[radio interview show; excerpt follows, sample passage from book also posted there]

For years before the Arab uprising, author James Carroll has been studying Jerusalem. Not just the city today and its divisions and tensions. But the city over thousands of years, as a symbol and locus of the sacred, the sublime, and the violent. As a spark point for modernity, and a portal to antiquity.