Table of Contents List of Maps viii Preface ix Introduction 1 I. Ghostly and Other Pilgrims 9 II. A Primer on the Importance of Jerusalem 19 III. The Old City 36 IV. Beginnings of the Jerusalem Pilgrimage: The First and Second Temples (c. 1000 BCE-63 BCE) 42 V. Pilgrims Under Roman and Byzantine Rule (63 BCE-638 CE) 50 VI. The Early Islamic Period: Christian and Muslim Pilgrimages (638-1095) 69 VII.

"A Pilgrimage in Arms": The First Crusade and Its Aftermath (1095-1187) 86 VIII. More Crusades and More Pilgrims: The Ayyubid and Mamluk Dynasties (1187-1517) 110 IX. Pilgrimages Under Ottoman Rule (1517-1917) 148 X. Pilgrimages During the British Mandate and Under the Israelis (1917-2001) 187 XI. A Summing-Up: "Unity in Diversity" and the Symbolism of the Journey 202 Selected Chronology 207 Appendix I. Selected List of Accounts Cited, in Chronological Order 215 Appendix II. The Destruction of the Herodian Temple: An Account by Flavius Josephus, 70 CE 217 Appendix III. The Travels of St.

Willibald, 720-726 219 Appendix IV. List of the Presents Brought Home from Jerusalem by Nompar de Caumont, 1420 221 Appendix V. Instructions for Christian Pilgrims, c. 1484 223 Appendix VI. Balfour and the Zionists 225 Appendix VII. Reports by Albright Fellows, 1990-2000 227 Notes 229 Selected Bibliography 249 Index 259 List of Maps Israel today (CIA World Factbook 2000) 2 Circular map of the world, thirteenth century (The British Library) 17 Jerusalem: the Old City (Eklectica Graphic Design) 37 Mini-map from Bernhard von Breydenbach's map of Jerusalem, 1486 (Courtesy of the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine) 138 Medieval "T in O" map (Eklectica Graphic Design) 171.