Jerusalem

  Russian Palestine Society

  Russian Revolution

  Rustaveli, Shota

  Rutenberg, Pinhas

  Saakashvili, Mikheil, President

  Sabas

  al-Sabbah, Hassan

  Sabbatai Zevi

  Sabbath, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1, 15.1, 17.1, 33.1

  Sabinus

  Sabra and Shatila massacres

  sacrifice, cult of, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1

        see also child sacrifice

  Sadat, Anwar, President, epl.1, epl.2

  Sadducees

  Sadeh, General Yitzhak, 49.1, 49.2

  Sadowa, Battle of

  Safadin, Sultan, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 26.4, 27.1

  Safed, 32.1, 37.1

  al-Saffah, Caliph

  Said, Boulos

  Said, Edward, iii, ix, 48.1, epl.1, epl.2

  Sakakini, Khalil, 45.1, 46.1, 47.1, 48.1

  Sakhra

  Saladin, Sultan, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 25.1, 28.1, 29.1, 42.1, epl.1

       and later developments, 42.1, 45.1, 45.2, 46.1

  Salahiyya endowments

  Salih Ayyub, Sultan, 28.1, 29.1

  Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Marquess of

  Sallust

  Salome (daughter of Herodias)

  Salome (sister of Herod), 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

  Salome Alexandra, Queen

  Salonika, 32.1, 44.1

  Samara

  Samaria, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2

  Samaritans, 6.1, 7.1, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1

  Samarkand

  Samosata

  Samuel, prophet, 2.1, 20.1

  Samuel, Herbert, prl.1st Viscount, 45.1, 45.2, 47.1, 47.2

  San Remo Conference

  Sanballat, 6.1, 7.1

  Sand, Shlomo

  Sanderson, John

  Sandys, George

  Sanhedrin, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 15.1

  Sanhedrin tomb

  Saracens (the name)

  Sarajevo

  Sardis, 6.1, 6.2

  Sargon II, King of Assyria

  Saturnius

  al-Saud, Abdullah

  Ibn Saud, Abdul-Aziz

  Ibn Saud, King Abdullah, 36.1, 47.1, 50.1

  Saudi Arabia, 29.1, 36.1, 47.1, 50.1, epl.1

  Saul, King

  Saulcy, Félicien de

  St Saviour’s monastery, 32.1, 33.1, 34.1, 35.1, 36.1

  Savoyards

  Schick, Conrad, 23.1, 40.1

  Schiff, Jacob

  Schlechter, Solomon

  Scott, C. P.

  Scott, Walter

  Sea Peoples, 1.1, 2.1

  Sebag, Jemima

  Sebag-Montefiore, Major Geoffrey

  Sebag-Montefiore, Sir Joseph

  Sebag-Montefiore, Captain William

  Sebaste

  Sebastopol

  Sebeos, Bishop

  Second Balkan War

  Second Wall, prl.1, 40.1

  Sedgwick, Sergeant James

  Selassie, Haile, Emperor, 44.1, 48.1, 49.1, epl.1

  Seleucids, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2

  Seleucos

  Selim the Grim, Sultan

  Selim II, Sultan

  Selim III, Sultan

  Semiramis Hotel, 47.1, 50.1

  Sennacherib, King of Assyria, 4.1, 49.1

  Sephardic Jews, 2.1, 3.1, 19.1, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3, 33.1, 35.1, 36.1, 37.1, 40.1, 43.1, epl.1

  Sephoria

  Septimus Severus, Emperor

  Serbs

  Sergei Alexandrovich, Grand Duke, 41.1, 43.1

  seven veils, dance of

  Seventh Day Adventists

  Seward, William H.

  Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, prl.1th Earl of, ix, 37.1, 37.2, 38.1, 39.1

  shahada, 17.1, 18.1

  Shaizar

  Shajar ad-Durr, Sultana, 28.1, 28.2

  Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, 4.1, 4.2

  Shaltiel, David

  Shamir, Yitzhak

  Shams al-Din

  Sharon, Ariel, 39.1, 53.1, epl.1, epl.2

  Shea, General John, 46.1, 46.2

  Sheba, Queen of, 3.1, 15.1

  Shechem, 2.1, 4.1

  Sheikh Jarrah, 7.1, 40.1, 43.1, 48.1, 50.1, 50.2, 51.1, 52.1, 52.2, 53.1, epl.1, epl.2

  Shema

  Sheshbazzar, King

  Sheshonq, pharaoh

  Shihabis

  Shiloh

  Shirin, Queen of Persia

  Shirkuh, Amir, 24.1, 26.1

  shofar, 48.1, 50.1, 53.1

  Shuqayri, Ahmed, 48.1, 53.1

  Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem, 25.1, 26.1, 26.2

  Sicarii, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1

  Sicily, 9.1, 20.1, 22.1, 27.1, 28.1

  Sidon, 22.1, 26.1, 34.1, 43.1

  Sigurd, King of Norway

  Sikorski, General Wladslaw

  Siloam Pool and Tunnel, 4.1, 5.1, 11.1, 11.2, 15.1

  Silwan, 4.1, 36.1, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3

  St Simeon

  Simon the Great, the Maccabee, see Maccabees

  Simon, builder of the Temple

  Simon, cousin of Jesus, prl.1, 12.1

  Simon, ‘prince of princes’

  Simon, son of Cleophas, 10.1, 14.1

  Simon II, the Just, 7.1, 43.1

  Simon ben Giora, prl.1, 13.1, 14.1

  Simon of Cyrene

  Sinai, 6.1, 7.1, 42.1, 45.1, 53.1, 53.2, 53.3, epl.1

  Sind

  al-Siqilli, Jawhar, see Jawhar

  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 20.1

  Six Day War, ix, 53.1, epl.1

  slingers

  Smith, George Adam

  Smith, Joseph

  Smith, Sir Sidney, 34.1, 35.1, 37.1

  Smyrna

  Socrates Scholasticus

  Solomon, King, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 10.1, 15.1, 16.1, 22.1, 32.1

       and Islam, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2

       relics of

  Solomon’s mines

  Somalia

  Sophronius, Patriarch

  Soviet Union, 45.1, 47.1, 48.1, 49.1, 50.1, 53.1, epl.1

  Sozomen

  Spafford, Anna

  Spafford-Vester, Bertha, 40.1, 43.1, 43.2, 44.1, 46.1, 46.2, 48.1, 50.1, 52.1

  Spafford, Horatio

  Spafford, Jacob

  Spain, 14.1, 20.1, 23.1, 24.1

       reconquest of, 30.1, 32.1

  Spanish Inquisition

  Spartacus slave rebellion, 9.1, 11.1

  Special Night Squads

  Special Squads

  Springs of Cresson

  Stables of Solomon, 10.1, 15.1, 22.1, 23.1

  Stalin, Josef, 43.1, 48.1, 50.1, 50.2, 50.3, 51.1, 52.1

  Stanhope, Lady Hester

  Stanley, Dean Arthur

  Stations of the Cross

  Stepashin, Stephan

  St Stephen, 11.1, 15.1

  St Stephen’s Gate

  Stern, Abraham

  Stonehenge

  stoning

  Storrs, Sir Ronald, x, 45.1, 45.2, 46.1, 46.2, 47.1, 47.2, 51.1

  Strait of Tiran

  Strategos

  stylites

  Sudan, 3.1, 39.1, 40.1, 45.1

  Suetonius

  Suez Canal, 35.1, 39.1, 40.1, 44.1, 53.1, epl.1

  Sufism, 20.1, 29.1, 29.2, 32.1

  suicide bombings, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3, epl.4

  Suleiman, Caliph

  Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan, 15.1, 29.1, 37.1

  Suleiman Pasha, the Just, 35.1, 35.2

  Sulla

  Supreme Muslim Council, 48.1, 48.2

  Suqman

  Susa, 6.1, 6.2, 41.1

  Swedish Evangelical Church

  Sweyn Godwinson, Earl

  Switzerland

  Sykes, Sir Mark, 45.1, 45.2

  Sykes–Picot Agreement, 45.1, 45.2

  Syria, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 7.1, 10.1, 12.1, 14.1, 21.1, 22.1, 39.1, 48.1, 49.1, 53.1

       and Alban
ian conquest, 36.1, 37.1

       and Arab conquests, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 20.1

       and archaeology

       and desert monks

       and division of Middle East, 45.1, 45.2, 45.3, 46.1, 46.2, 47.1, 49.1, 50.1

       and Grand Mufti’s revolt, 49.1, 49.2

       and Islamic sultanate, 25.1, 26.1, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3

       and Israeli wars, 50.1, 53.1, epl.1

       and Mongol raids, 29.1, 29.2

       Nur al-Din’s conquest, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3

       and Persian conquesst, 16.1, 16.2

       Roman occupation, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1

       and Tamurlane’s conquest

       and the Three Pashas

       and UAR

  Syriac Orthodox Church, 15.1, 33.1

  al-Tabari

  Tabernacles, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1

  Tabor Mountain, Battle of

  Tacitus, prl.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2

  Taki al-Din, 26.1, 26.2, 27.1

  Talaat Pasha, Mehmet, 44.1, 44.2, 45.1, 46.1

  Talal, King of Jordan

  Talbieh, 37.1, 37.2, 44.1, 48.1, 50.1

  Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice, Prince de

  Talmud, 10.1, 14.1, 14.2, 19.1

  Talpiot, 48.1, 49.1, 50.1

  Tamar

  Tamara, Queen of Georgia

  Tamurlane

  Tanakh, 1.1, 7.1

  Tancred de Hauteville, 21.1, 21.2

  Tankiz, Viceroy

  Tartars

  Tbilisi, 46.1, 50.1

  Tegart forts

  Teima

  Tel Aviv, 43.1, 48.1, 49.1, 49.2, 50.1, 50.2, 50.3, 50.4, 52.1, epl.1, epl.2

  Tel Dan stele, viii, 3.1, 4.1

  telegraph

  Tell al-Jahudiya

  Temple

       anti-Temple traditions

       Babylonian destruction

       Foundation Stone, 15.1, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3

       Herod’s Temple, 10.1, 18.1, 32.1, 39.1

       and Jewish commemoration

       and Jewish revolt, prl.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1

       Julian’s rebuilding

       and life of Jesus, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3

       and Maimonides’ grieving

       and PLO denial, epl.1, epl.2

       Roman depredations, 9.1, 10.1

       Second Temple, 6.1, 10.1

       Solomon’s Temple, prl.1, 3.1, 6.1, 10.1, 16.1, 18.1

       spoliation under Antiochus

       Third Temple, 48.1, epl.1, epl.2

       treasures, prl.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1

  Temple Institute

  Temple Mount, iii, vi, prl.1, 1.1, 9.1, 13.1, 15.1, 20.1, 24.1, 40.1, 44.1, 46.1, 47.1, 52.1

       and Albanian conquest

       and Arab conquests, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 20.1

       and Arab Revolt

       and archaeology, 39.1, 42.1

       and Crusaders, 21.1, 23.1, 23.2, 28.1

       and European visitors, 35.1, 35.2, 38.1, 42.1

       Herod’s constructions, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1

       and Intifada

       and Islamic sultanate, 26.1, 28.1

       and Israeli wars, 50.1, 53.1

       and Jewish festivals

       Jewish picnics, 7.1, 43.1

       and Mamluk sultanate, 29.1, 29.2, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3

       negotiations and access, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3

       and Ottoman sultanate, 31.1, 32.1, 32.2, 33.1

       and Parker fiasco, 43.1, 43.2

       reconsecration

       Roman constructions, 14.1, 14.2

       sacred status, 3.1, 15.1

       and Second Coming

       and Seljuk conquest

       tomb of King Hussein, 51.1, 52.1

       tunnel construction

       and World Islamic Conference

        see also Haram al-Sharif

  Temple Mount Faithful

  Temple of Amun

  Temple of Jupiter, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4

  Temple of Solomon, see al-Aqsa Mosque

  Ten Commandments

  Tennenbaum, Leah

  Tenth Legion, prl.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 40.1

  Tetragrammaton

  Teutonic Knights, 28.1, 28.2

  Texas

  Thackeray, William, 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 37.4

  Theodora, Empress

  Theodora, Queen of Jerusalem

  Theodorich, 22.1, 24.1

  Theodosius I, Emperor, 15.1, 15.2

  Theodosius II, Emperor

  Thibault of Champagne, Count

  Third Wall, 12.1, 13.1

  Thirty Years War

  St Thomas

  Thomas, Lowell, 45.1, 46.1, 47.1

  Thomas the gravedigger

  Thomas the Presbyter

  Thompson, Archbishop William

  Thomson, William, 36.1, 37.1

  Thousand and One Nights, 19.1, 40.1

  Thrace

  Three Pashas, 44.1, 45.1, 45.2

  Tiberias, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 25.1, 32.1

  Tiberius, Emperor, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4

  Tiferet Israel Synagogue

  Tiglath-Pileser III, King of Assyria

  Tigris, river

  Tikrit

  Timberlake, Henry

  Titus, Emperor, prl.1, 4.1, 5.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 51.1

  Tobiah the Amnonite

  Tobler, Titus

  Tobruk

  Toldot Haron

  Tomb of Kings

  Tomb of Simon

  Tomb of the Abyss

  Tomb of Zechariah

  Torah, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 10.1, 19.1, 29.1, 32.1, 37.1

  Torquemada, Tomás de

  Tosefta

  Touro, Judah

  Tours

  Tours, Battle of

  Tower of Babel, 5.1, 5.2

  Tower of David, 10.1, 20.1, 21.1, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1, 25.1, 25.2, 26.1, 27.1, 28.1, 29.1, 30.1, 33.1, 35.1, 39.1, 40.1, 42.1, 46.1, 46.2, 49.1

        see also this page

  Trajan, Emperor, 14.1, 16.1

  Transjordan, 47.1, 48.1, 49.1

  Transylvania

  Treaty of Jaffa

  Treaty of Karlowitz

  Trieste

  Tripoli, 21.1, 21.2

  Trojan Wars

  Trotsky, Leon, 43.1, 47.1

  True Cross, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2

       and Crusaders, 21.1, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 25.1, 26.1, 27.1, 28.1

  Truman, Harry S., President, 45.1, 50.1, 51.1

  Tunis

  Tunisia, 20.1, 26.1, 30.1

  Turanshah, Sultan

  Turin Shroud

  Turjman, Ihsan

  Turkish Lions

  Tustari, Grand Vizier

  Twain, Mark, iv

  Twelve Apostles, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4

  Tyler, John, President

  Tyre, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 20.1, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1, 26.1

  Tyropaean Valley

  Ubadah ibn al-Samit

  Ubayd Allah (al-Mahdi)

  Uganda, 42.1, 43.1, 45.1, 49.1

  Uhuh, Battle of

  Ukraine, 6.1, 32.1, 40.1, 48.1, 52.1

  Umayyad dynasty

  Union of Zionist-Revisionists

  United Arab Command

  United Arab Republic (UAR)

  United Nations, 6.1, 50.1, 51.1, 52.1, 53.1, 53.2, epl.1, epl.2
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  United Resistance Command, 50.1, 50.2

  United States of America

       American Civil War

       American Constitution

       American Jews, 47.1, epl.1

       early colonists

       and Jewish immigration

       and Six Day War, 53.1, epl.1

       and Suez crisis

       and state of Israel

  Unur, Atabeg of Damascus, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1

  Ur, 1.1, 5.1

  Urban II, Pope

  Uriah the Hittite, 3.1, 40.1

  US Zionist Federation

  Usamah bin Munqidh, ix, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 26.1

  Ustinov, Baron Plato von

  Vagabond Café

  Valley of Hinnom, 4.1, 5.1

  Valley of Jehoshaphat

  Vanderbilt, Consuelo

  Varus, Publius Quinctilius

  Venice

  Verdun, 45.1, 46.1

  Versailles peace conference

  Vespasian, Emperor, prl.1, prl.2, 13.1, 14.1

  Vester, Frederick

  Via Dolorosa, 11.1, 14.1, 30.1, 32.1, 37.1, 39.1, 53.1

  Victoria, Queen, 35.1, 37.1, 37.2, 38.1, 39.1, 41.1, 49.1

  Vienna, 31.1, 32.1, 38.1, 42.1, 42.2, 44.1

  Villiers, Captain Hyde

  Vilna, 38.1, 40.1, epl.1

  Vincent, Père

  Virgin Mary, see Mary, mother of Jesus

  Virgin’s Tomb, see Church of Our Lady of Jehoshaphat

  Vitruvius

  Volney, Constantin

  von Papen, Franz, 44.1, 45.1, 46.1, 48.1

  Wagner, Richard

  Wahab, Muhammad ibn Abdul

  Wahabis, 28.1, 33.1, 45.1

  al-Wahrani

  Walid I, Caliph, 18.1, 18.2

  Walter, Hubert

  Waqfs, 40.1, 53.1, epl.1

  Ward, Hon. Cyril

  warfare, laws of

  Warren, Captain Charles, 3.1, 39.1

  Warren’s Gate

  Waterloo, Battle of

  Watson, Brigadier C. F.

  Wauchope, Sir Arthur, 48.1, 48.2

  Wavell, Sir Archibald, prl.1st Earl, 49.1

  Wazzah

  Weidenfeld, George, Baron, 51.1, 52.1

  Weizmann, Chaim, President, 38.1, 42.1, 45.1, 45.2, 46.1, 46.2, 48.1, 48.2, 49.1, 49.2, 49.3, 51.1

       and Buraq Uprising

       and El Alamein

       and Israeli presidency, 51.1, 51.2

       and Nabi Musa riots

       and Orde Wingate

  Weizmann Institute of Science

  Well of Souls

  West Bank, 51.1, 51.2, 52.1, 53.1, epl.1

       and Intifada, epl.1, epl.2

  Western Wall, prl.1, 3.1, 9.1, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1, 17.1, 28.1, 30.1, 32.1, 39.1, 39.2, 42.1, 45.1, 49.1, epl.1

       and Buraq Uprising

       daily rituals

       as ha-Kotel, 32.1, 48.1, 53.1

       and Jewish access, 51.1, 51.2, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3