Jerusalem (Term)

Jerusalem (Hebrew יְרוּשָׁלַיִם Yerushalayim) was a Canaanite city which King David made the capital of Israel. It has a long history, both literally and figuratively, as a holy city in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (in Arabic it is called أورشليم) القدس) al-Quds or Urshalim al-Quds). It was built on a mountain called Zion, hence "Zion" is often used as a synonym of "Jerusalem". Jerusalem is also often equated to the Salem of which Melchizedek was high priest according to Genesis 14:18-20. As "the city of God" (the location of Solomon's Temple), the name Jerusalem has also been used of the "New Jerusalem", the eschatological city of God. In addition to Salem and Zion, other names of Jerusalem include Solyma (from the Greek Ιεροσόλυμα "Holy Salem"), Moriah and Ariel — among many others.

Hymns

There are many hymns about Jerusalem, but when used as a hymn title the reference is usually to the British quasi-patriotic hymn, adapted from a poem by William Blake, beginning "And Did Those Feet", customarily sung to the hymn tune Jerusalem composed by C. H. H. Parry.

Tunes

Jerusalem, or Jerusalem (Parry), by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1916, is a tune in the metrical form of "LMD", i.e. 8 8 8 8 D. It is the "tune proper" of the Blake text beginning And Did Those Feet, but a number of other texts have also been set to it, including "O Day of Peace" by Carl P. Daw and "I Will Exalt My God and King" (an anonymous metrical version of Psalm 145).