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Jerusalem’s libraries contain priceless treasures — but almost no one gets to see them

13 July 2019

9:00 AM

13 July 2019

9:00 AM

The bearded figure clad in white robes and wandering barefoot through the streets of Jerusalem is not, in fact, the messiah. But neither is he a very naughty boy.  Rather, he is a middle-aged man from Texas in need of a shower who, like the German across the street claiming to be Saint Paul, is caught in the grip of Jerusalem Syndrome — first clinically described in 1937.

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