Jerusalem: The Biography

Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem, 210, 215–18

Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, 218–21, 224, 229n

Baldwin III, King of Jerusalem, 221, 233, 235–8

Baldwin IV, King of Jerusalem, 242–5

Baldwin V, King of Jerusalem, 245–6, 320n

Balfour, Arthur, 1st Earl of, xxv, 381, 409–10, 412–15, 428, 431, 440–1

Balfour Declaration, 414–15, 422–4, 427–9, 431, 437–9, 453, 456

Balian of Ibelin, 245, 247, 249–50, 253–4

Balkans, 291, 341, 361, 395

Ballin, Albert, 376

Ballobar, Count Antonio de, 396–8, 400, 416–17

Balsam of Gilead, 79n

bar Kochba, Simon, 135–7, 163, 383

Barabbas, 102, 105

Barak, Ehud, 506–7, 512–13

Barcelona, 279

Barclay’s Gate, 354n

Bardawil lagoons, 218

Baris fortress, 54, 69n, 78

Barka Khan, 271, 361n

Barkat, Nir, 511

Barker, General Evelyn ‘Bubbles’, 462, 464, 466–7

Barsbay, Sultan, 286

Barsoma of Nisibis, 153–5

Bartholomew, Peter, 209

Barton, General, 422

Basle, 375, 380n

Basra, 196

Bathsheba, 23, 25

Bathsheba’s Pool, 363

Battle of the Milvian Bridge, 143

Battle of the Pyramids, 312

Bay of Issus, 163

bayah, 178

Bayley, Lieutenant-Colonel, 418

Bayt Nuba, 260

Beautiful Gate, 101–2n, 109, 165n, 264

Becket, Thomas, 228n

Beersheba, 414

Begin, Menachem, 458–62, 465–7, 472, 480, 493, 496, 504–5, 508

Behustan mountains, 161

Beilin, Yossi, 504–5

Beirut, 9, 89, 216, 225, 238, 338, 347, 405, 458, 505

and Parker fiasco, 391–2

Russian assault, 310, 316n

and Three Pashas, 397–8, 416n

Beit Jala, 197n

Belisarius, General, 130n, 159

Bell, Gertrude, 404

Belshazzar, 45–7

Belzers, 484n

ben Sira, Jesus, 58, 199n

ben Zakkai, Rabbi Yohanan, 132

ben Zakkai Synagogue, 330

Ben-Gurion, David (David Grün), 398, 415, 430–1, 439, 443n, 484, 490, 503n

and Deir Yassin massacre, 469

and Israeli state, 445–6, 450, 453, 458–62, 465, 467–70, 474–7, 479–80, 502

origins, 381–3

and premiership, 481, 492

and Suez crisis, 490

Benjamin, 164

Benjamin of Tudela, 24n, 240n

Berekhah, Rabbi, 153

Berenice, Queen of Chalcis, 5–6, 9, 116, 119, 121–3, 126, 129, 131

Berlin, 398, 414, 416n, 443, 454–5, 461, 486

Bernadotte, Count Folke, 480–3

Betar, 137

Betar youth organization, 430, 437–8, 461

Bethany, 227–8

Bethel, 17n, 30

Bethesda Pool, 37, 72, 100, 228

Bethlehem, 91, 94, 155, 399

Church of the Nativity, 216, 342

and Crusades, 208, 210, 268

Beth-Zacharia, 65

Beth-Zur, 67

Bevin, Ernest, 462

Bible, xviii, xx, xxiv, 10, 13, 21–3, 25–6, 28–9, 31–2n, 35, 40, 45, 477

Aleppo Codex, 100n, 213

and archaeology, 354–5

Authorized Version, 300

the Gospels, 10, 91, 97, 99, 102, 105, 108, 144

inconsistencies in, 16n

Latin translation, 152

Masoretic, 100n

New Testament, 117, 121

Old Testament, 19, 55n, 69, 100n

Orde Wingate and, 451–2

Pentateuch, 15–16, 45n

and Protestantism, 297, 300–1, 331

St Petersburg Codex, 100n

Septuagint, 55, 100n

and Zionism, 412

Bible, books of

Acts of the Apostles, 109n, 114–15

Chronicles, 30, 152n

Daniel, 44, 45n, 63n, 97

Deuteronomy, 40, 82, 114

Ezekiel, 388

Exodus, 17, 39n

Genesis, 16, 39n, 298

Isaiah, 33, 97, 100

Jeremiah, 41n

Judges, 17n, 18

Kings, 22, 30, 32, 37n

Lamentations, 43

Numbers, 40n, 86n, 135

Psalms, 19, 43–5, 102, 107, 156n, 426

Revelation, 121, 133, 213n, 366

St John, 91–2n, 98, 103, 109n

St Luke, 91, 93, 96, 99n, 102, 105, 108, 109n

St Mark, 96n, 99n, 102, 105, 109n

St Matthew, 91, 96n, 99, 105, 109

Samuel, 22

Thessalonians, 118

Biblical Zoo, 483

Bird, Eugene, 488–9

Bird, Kai, 489

Birobidzhan, 440n, 463

Bishop Gobat’s School, 449

Bismarck, Prince Otto von, 362, 377

Black Hand cell, 447

Black Hundreds, 383

Black Letter, 439

Black Obelisk, 32n

Black Sabbath, 465

Black Sea, 163, 191n

Black September, 502

Black Sunday, 450

Blake, William, 45, 321n, 462

Bliss, Frederick, 390

blood libel, 333, 336, 351, 374

Boer War, 355n

Bohemond, Prince of Antioch, 210, 215, 244

Bokharan Quarter, 375, 444

Bologna, 238

Bols, Major-General Sir Louis J., 431

Bombay, 444n

Book of the Glory of Kings, 157n

Book of Zerubabbel, 163

Book of Zohar, 298

Bordeaux pilgrim, 147–9, 152n

Bosnia, 315n, 318

Bosphorus, 144

Bosra, 169

Boston, 337

Boston Herald, 441

Bradford, William, 301

Brandeis, Louis, 428

Breslavers, 486n

Brest-Litovsk, 461

Bridges, Robert, 321n

Brindisi, 266, 269

Britain

British Jews, 257, 277n, 301–2, 350

and conversion of Jews, 330–5

Roman, 124, 136, 150

and state of Israel, 467

and Suez crisis, 490

and Zionism, xxv, 380–1, 409–15, 423–4, 431, 443, 466

Britannicus, Tiberius Claudius, 116n

British Military Cemetery, 434

Bronner, Ethan, 510

Bronze Age, 13

Brooke, Rupert, 419

Brothers, Richard, 322–3

Brutus, Marcus Junius, 75

Bubastis, 31

Buchan, John, 404

Bulgaria, 361

bullae, 32, 41n, 43

Burma, 453n

‘Burma Road’, 480

Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron, 37

Byzantium, 144

Caecina, 131

Caesar, Gaius Julius, 72–5, 131, 134n

Caesarea, 82, 93, 99n, 100, 115, 119, 121, 140, 164, 209, 216

Caesarea Maritima, 9

Caesarea Philippi, 9, 116

Caesarion, 74, 81, 82n

Café Jawhariyyeh, 444

Caiaphas (high priest), 99n, 100, 103–4, 108, 110

Cairo, 207n, 271, 272n, 302–3, 305, 316n, 436, 438, 469, 480, 491n, 493

Albanian conquest, 326

and British rule, 402–4, 408

and caliphs, 192, 194–6, 198–200, 215

and Fatimid Egypt, 239–40

and Mamluk sultanate, 278, 283–5, 287

Oriental Stores, 423

and Saladin, 243, 251