Publication subTitle :The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: David Gange;Michael Ledger-Lomas;
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication year: 2013
E-ISBN: 9781316895672
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107004245
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781107004245
Subject: B971 Bible
Keyword: 文物考古
Language: ENG
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Description
This book shows how, in unearthing biblical cities, archaeology transformed nineteenth-century thinking on the truth of Christianity and its role in modern cities. In unearthing the cities of the Bible, archaeology transformed nineteenth-century thinking on the truth of Christianity and its place in modern cities. This book shows how anxieties about Christianity's fate in the urban world made cities from Jerusalem to Rome contested models for the role of Christianity in modern culture. In unearthing the cities of the Bible, archaeology transformed nineteenth-century thinking on the truth of Christianity and its place in modern cities. This book shows how anxieties about Christianity's fate in the urban world made cities from Jerusalem to Rome contested models for the role of Christianity in modern culture. The history of archaeology is generally told as the making of a secular discipline. In nineteenth-century Britain, however, archaeology was enmeshed with questions of biblical authority and so with religious as well as narrowly scholarly concerns. In unearthing the cities of the Eastern Mediterranean, travellers, archaeologists and their popularisers transformed thinking on the truth of Christianity and its place in modern cities. This happened at a time when anxieties over the unprecedented rate of urbanisation in Britain coincided with critical challenges to biblical truth. In this context, cities from Jerusalem to Rome became contested models for the adaptation of Christianity to modern urban life. Using sites from across the biblical world, this book evokes the appeal of the ancient city to diverse groups of British Protestants in their arguments with one another and with their secular and Catholic rivals about the vitality of their faith in urban Britain. Introduction Michael Ledger-Lomas and David Gange; 1. Troy David Gange and Rachel Bryant Davies; 2. Jerusalem Simon Goldhill; 3. Nineveh Tim Larsen; 4. Pithom David Gange; 5. Babylon Michael Seymour; 6. Sodom Astrid Swenson; 7. Bethlehem Eitan Bar-Yosef; 8. Ephesus Michael Ledger-Lomas; 9. Rome Jane Garnett and Anne Bush. 'Present day travellers to the Holy Land … will certainly be able to broaden their knowledge.' Church Times