Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of GodPrinceton University Press, 14 wrz 2021 - 328 What if Troy was not destroyed in the epic battle immortalized by Homer? What if many legendary cities of the ancient world did not meet their ends through war and conquest as archaeologists and historians believe, but in fact were laid waste by a force of nature so catastrophic that religions and legends describe it as the wrath of god? Apocalypse brings the latest scientific evidence to bear on biblical accounts, mythology, and the archaeological record to explore how ancient and modern earthquakes have shaped history--and, for some civilizations, seemingly heralded the end of the world. |
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... Jerusalem ) was my early collaborator and partner in exploring the effects of earthquakes on ancient sites in Israel and Jordan . Hagai introduced me to many archaeologi- cal sites that I did not know about . Together we produced the ...
... Jerusalem . Like the walls of Mycenae , the city walls of Jerusalem resemble a masonry quilt , its patches delineating repeated damage and repair through the cen- turies ( Figure 1.3 ) . In Jerusalem , those repairs continue to this day ...
... Jerusalem , Incipient crack like the walls of Myce- nae , are a patchwork assembly of different construction styles and ages , delineated in this photograph with black lines . Some of these patches are repairs of earthquake damage ...
... Jerusalem's past . Confronted with such similar construction patterns in the walls of Mycenae , I had to wonder : Could the collapse of that city around 1200 BC have been caused not by an attacking army from the sea but by an earth ...
... Jerusalem , whom I had never actually met . However , I knew of him through his father , Yaccov Ben Tor , who had been one of my favorite geology professors when I was an undergraduate student at Hebrew University . I watched myself ...
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How Earthquakes Happen | 33 |
History Myth and the Reliability of the Written Record | 66 |
Clues to Earthquakes in the Archaeological Record | 89 |
Under the Rubble Human Casualties of Earthquakes | 142 |
Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls Destruction That Preserves | 163 |
Expanding the Earthquake Record in the Holy Land | 187 |
Earthquake Storms and the Catastrophic End of the Bronze Age | 225 |
Rumblings and Revolutions Political Effects of Earthquakes | 247 |
Earthquakes and Societal Collapse | 273 |
Glossary | 280 |
References | 290 |
Index | 306 |
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Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God Amos Nur,Dawn Burgess Ograniczony podgląd - 2008 |