Wikipedia's first sentence called it “a 2010 book about the temple mount edited by oleg grabar and benjamin z”. Today it says “a 2009 interdisciplinary book concerning the history of the temple mount”.
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The opening as it read in 2010
Kedar and published by the University of Texas Press.1Where Heaven and Earth Meet is the joint product of professors who teach at Al Quds University , the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Dominican Seminary in Jerusalem. While the book was in press, the board of Al-Quds University decided to boycott Israeli academic institutions, but did not insist that publicaiotn be canceled.2The opinions of the scholars in these essays is divided; "Muslim contributors.... seem disinclined to recognize a Jewish claim to the Temple Mount." Al Quds University President Sari Nusseibeh wrote an essay for the book.3
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Kedar and published by the University of Texas Press. Where Heaven and Earth Meet is the joint product of professors who teach at Al Quds University , the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Dominican Seminary in Jerusalem. While the book was in press, the board of Al-Quds University decided to boycott Israeli academic institutions, but did not insist that publication be canceled.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Kedar and published by the University of Texas Press. Where Heaven and Earth Meet is the joint product of professors who teach at Al Quds University , the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Dominican Seminary in Jerusalem. While the book was in press, the board of Al-Quds University decided to boycott Israeli academic institutions, but did not insist that publication be canceled. The opinions of the scholars in these essays is divided; "Muslim contributors.... seem disinclined to recognize a Jewish claim to the Temple Mount." "The University of Texas Press" . The University of Texas Press .
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2009 book on Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade is a 2009 book about the esplanade in Jerusalem "known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif , or the Noble Sanctuary ", edited by Oleg Grabar , the French art historian, archeologist and Harvard professor, and Benjamin Z.Kedar , the Israeli professor emeritus of history and vice-president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .It was published by the University of Texas Press in Austin , Texas .Austin: University of Texas Press .
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2009 book on Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade is a 2009 interdisciplinary book concerning the history of the Temple Mount (referred to as al-Haram al-Sharif in Islam) written from an interfaith perspective.
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a 2010 book about the temple mount edited by oleg grabar and benjamin z
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a 2009 interdisciplinary book concerning the history of the temple mount
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