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In this provocative work, seasoned journalist Gershom Gorenberg portrays a deadly mix of religious extremism, violence, and Mideast politics, as expressed in the struggle for the sacred center of Jerusalem. Known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, this thirty-five-acre enclosure at the southeast corner of Jerusalem's Old City is the most contested piece of real estate on earth. Here nationalism combines with fundamentalist faith in a volatile brew. Members of the world's three major monotheistic faiths--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--hold this spot to be the key to salvation as they await the end of the world, and struggle to fulfill conflicting religious prophecies with dangerous political consequences. Adroitly portraying American radio evangelists of the End, radical Palestinian sheikhs, and Israeli ex-terrorists, Gorenberg explains why believers hope for the End, and why prominent American fundamentalists provide hard-line
support for Israel while looking forward to the apocalypse. He makes sense of the messianic fervor that has driven some Israeli settlers to oppose peace. And he describes the Islamic apocalyptic visions that cast Israel's actions in Jerusalem as diabolic plots. The End of Days shows how conflict over Jerusalem and the fiery belief in apocalypse continue to have a potent impact on world politics and why a lasting peace in the Middle East continues to prove elusive.

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"Gorenberg...shows himself an insightful listener."--The New York Times Book Review

"Dismayingly good history....Gorenberg's book predicts not only the eruption but the location of each fault line."--Washington Post Book World

"A prescient and invaluable guide to understanding the collapse of the peace process and the dangerously escalating conflict that has replaced it....Gorenberg's vivid descriptions of the setting and his well-crafted development of the characters make this book read like a millennial thriller, leaving the reader with a bone-chilling sensation about the violent events currently unfolding in Jerusalem."--Boston Globe

"Gorenberg's prescience is manifest....This valuable study greatly enhances readers' grasp of [the] Middle East's religious and political complexities."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Few American journalists understand evangelical theology well enough to explain the Christian Right, few Israeli journalists take messianic Zionism seriously enough to explain the right-wing settlers, and few of either investigate Islam as more than a caricature. Gershom Gorenberg has the intellectual depth and journalistic curiosity to do all three, and as a result, his warnings chill the bone."--The New Republic

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Gershom Gorenberg is an associate editor and columnist for The Jerusalem Report, a regular contributor to The New Republic and an associate of the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University. He lives in Jerusalem, where he has spent years covering the dangerous mix of religion and politics.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; First Edition, first printing (May 16, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0195152050
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195152050
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.41 x 5.58 x 0.82 inches

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Gershom Gorenberg is a historian and journalist who has been covering Middle Eastern affairs for over 35 years.

His latest book, "War of Shadows," began with a conversation in Jerusalem that set off years of searching through archives, attics, streets in Cairo, Rome, London - endless days and nights of seeing facts unravel and new ones take shape in place of them, of following one lead to another to find someone who remembered the mysterious woman at Bletchley Park who discovered Rommel's source in British headquarters - an obsessive hunt that led to the real story of how the Nazis came within an inch of conquering the Middle East.

Gorenberg was previously the author of three critically acclaimed books - The Unmaking of Israel, The Accidental Empire, and The End of Days – and coauthor of Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

Gorenberg is a columnist for The Washington Post and a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, the New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and in Hebrew for Ha’aretz. He will return to the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 2021 to teach the workshop he created on writing history.

He lives in Jerusalem with his wife, journalist Myra Noveck. They have three children – Yehonatan, Yasmin and Shir-Raz.

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Michael Tozer

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Gorenberg's book is certainly interesting and thought provoking. Although, while reading it, I couldn't help but feel I was reviewing a National Geographic article on some primitive tribe on the Amazon, not the great online bookseller, the river. Such was Gorenberg's rendering of the madness of the fundamentalists. Gorenberg is, first and foremost, a journalist; and his style is, naturally, journalistic. It makes for lively and interesting reading, but there is really little analysis and virtually no synthesis in the overall presentation.

One of the more interesting and important aspects that Gorenberg does develop well is the odd alliance of America's Christian Zionist movement with the Israeli religious right. Why is this alliance odd? Well, understanding of classic Christianity reveals that it is fundamentally at odds with Judaism, which is not a Biblical faith at all, but rather allegiance to the Talmudic Pharisees, the Kabbalah, and the Babylonian Talmud. This aspect is dramatically exposed in the support of misguided "Christian" zealots, such as Irvin Baxter, who support the terrorist founded and oriented Temple Mount Faithful movement of Gershom Solomon. Solomon's predecessor was, of course, Stanley Goldfoot, who was responsible for the King David Hotel terrorist bombing and the assassination of Count Bernadotte. Baxter supports said terrorist organization by influencing his misled radio and "ministry" followers to send money to various causes that further the insidious work of the terrorist "faithful". It is interesting to note, as Gorenberg insightfully observes, that Baxter has made rather a career of exciting his sleep walking followers to anticipate the imminent "End of Days" all the while sending emergency funds to his "ministry", such that news of the end can be promulgated with dispatch. If such reasoning appeals to you, perhaps you will really enjoy Gorenberg's book and Baxter's rather silly radio show.

Gorenberg ends his book by reciting a rabbinic story relative to the murder of Abel by his brother, Cain. This is a fitting end to his book, as it leaves to Talmudic jurisprudence and dialectic the guilt or innocense of Cain. In the end, it is not the Word of God that matters to such as Gorenberg and Baxter. It is the guile of the rabbis. The book ends not with a bang, but with a whimper.

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How Fundamentalist Christians and Israeli-Jewish Extremists are collaborating to bring about the Third Temple and the Apocalypse

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From the title "End of Days," it would appear this is just another apocalyptic prediction of the Rapture followed by "the great wrap up." Nothing could be further from the truth. I read this book because I knew the author to be American-born Israeli historian, journalist and blogger, specializing in Middle Eastern politics who has written great books such as "The Accidental Empire" (which deals with the post 1967 settler movement of Judea and Samaria.)
In fact, this book focuses on the center of three different religions Messianic aspirations--the Temple Mount. No doubt he borrows his title from Christian Pre- Millenniumists who focus on the Third Temple and the role of the Jews and Israel in the End Time. A significant portion of the book is devoted to these various Christian groups and their predictions of Israel's place and specifically, the Temple Mount. But, being both a thorough journalist and containing the natural curiosity of the same, Gorenberg looks at (what he calls) "fringe" Israeli groups such as the Temple Mount Faithful and how they are encouraging the Messianic expectations of the evangelicals. Gorenberg's own opinion seems to be that the "Christian extremists" (his idea) coupled with their encouragement for the "Israeli-Jewish extremists" could actually bring about the Temple-T3 and the subsequent apocalypse just by their focusing on it. He seems to be convinced another Temple is NOT needed; that the Jews are doing just fine without it and the "bloody sacrifices" and giving up this vision is in the long term interest of "peace and security."
The book is solid investigative journalism and makes a solid contribution to examining the "players" in the Temple-T3 story, ALL the players, both Christian Fundamentalists and Israeli Jewish. Gorenberg is stingy with his own opinions, but the careful reader can see where Gorenberg is personally on this issue and it is NOT a vote for T-3, which he sees as a threat to the tenuous peace between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews. I STRONGLY recommend this book for ANYONE interested in the subject of another Temple--T3.

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A book that refuses to take refuge in angry rhetoric, either secular or Christian Zionist. This is a sober and careful unravelling of some of the worst excesses of religious fundamentalism, written in a chatty, journalistic style that (unlike at least one of its hyper-critical reviews) gives due respect to all sides. It would be easy to condemn religion altogether: instead, Gorenberg argues for due respect and tolerance for everyone. Would that his critics did the same in some of the frosty review material I have read.
As a practising Christian myself, I'm always amused by believers who purport gushingly to "love Israel" yet are strangely silent about the Arab Christians, who are largely ignored by the evangelistic power-brokers determined to cosy up to whatever regime is in power regardless of its human rights record.
Those who prefer to condemn the writer rather than engaging with what he actually says should read and evaluate without prejudice, as Gorenberg does, instead of using their reviews to advertise their own favourite reads.

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Michael Kyriakides

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 3, 2014

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Very engaging book, describing real recent historical events coupled with the rise of fundamentalism and fanaticism. So you thought the fundamentalism is one and the same with Islam and Muslims? Read On!!!!

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Interested in history, archaeology, religion, human motivation, deceit ? You need to read this

M. D Roberts

Disappointing. Needs more in-depth study.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 25, 2003

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Having read many reviews on this book, most of which heap praise upon it, I picked it up with a sense of eager anticipation. Jerusalem being a city that I know so very well and love more than any other.
Only too aware of the immense religious and political significance of the Jerusalem's Temple Mount to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, I expected to read a serious, in-depth, respectful study of the relevance of the Temple Mount to all the parties concerned, particularly in relation to how all faiths view it's place in the end times.
Whilst these subjects are touched upon and there is much of merit in this book, I do not feel that the book does justice to this colossal subject.
I feel that time and again, the writer's personal opinions are allowed to taint this study. Whilst such should be respected, I fail to find any justification for deviating from essential & pivotal issues to personally attack and insult Christian evangelists for example, over their own personal appearances & histories, or to ridicule the differing personal opinions of others professing some knowledge of the Temple Mount. Accusations of certain beliefs/opinions as being 'myths' without any appropriate elaboration or explanation for such accusations leaves a lot to be desired.
Others might accuse me of 'nit-picking', but I feel that this is a subject that needs to be approached with the utmost respect. I consider that there is much destructive criticism within this book, smeared at times with arrogance, whilst constructive criticism and respect is unfortunately sometimes lacking, as is any real in-depth study to the issues concerned. Other reviews quite correctly state the immense signifcance and importance of the matters discussed here, but I am left feeling that this subject needs to be addressed with far more depth and far more respect.
There are better books out there on these matters. Might I respectfully suggest that interested persons read "Secrets Of Jerusalem's Temple Mount" by Leen & Kathleen Ritmeyer, "The Coming Last Days Temple" and "Jerusalem In Prophecy" both by Randall Price. Thanks for listening.

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