Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City - Simon Sebag Montefiore

 If your looking for a reason for this bronze age settlement became the universal city it's because of a story told by a unique book of historical and storied prestige: "the Bible"

The Bible has been studied and revered by millions of believers for thousands of years. It has made Jerusalem the most famous city in the world. 

Many of the stories told in the bible originated in the oral traditions of the Hebrew people they were often only put down in writing hundreds of years after they were supposed to have happened. 

For some believers, the Bible is the fruit of divine revelation fundamentally infallible in every detail but for the historian, it's a troublesome, complex, subtle source. Some of it is undeniably and factually correct. Some of it is mythological, some of it is the poetry of soaring beauty, and much of it is absolutely mysterious to all of us.BBC Mini

Simon Sebag Montefiore - Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City BBC miniseries