01: Wellspring of Holiness | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

Duration: 59'02''

Synopsis

Simon Sebag Montefiore begins a history of Jerusalem by exploring how it came into being and how it became so important to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

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