Description |
1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations (colour) |
Contents |
Introduction : history, God, and me / Simon Goldhill and Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft -- Genealogy, translation, and resistance : between the Bible and the Greeks / Simon Goldhill -- Herodotus, historian of the Hebrew people, without knowing it / Suzanne L. Marchand -- The Bible, classical antiquity, and the invention of Victorian art at the 1887 Manchester Jubilee Exhibition / Kate Nichols -- The classical and biblical in dialogue : a conversation in Victorian sculpture / Caroline Vout -- Dionysia in Bavaria : Greek theatre, German Catholicism and the cultural uses of the Oberammeragau passion play, 1830-1910 / Robert D. Priest -- Popes and caesars : St Paul, protestant Bible culture, and the building of the American Episcopal Church in Rome / G.A. Bremner -- Protestant travellers to Rome and the legacies of the Apostrolic Church / Dorothy M. Figueira and Brian H. Murray -- HMS Baccfhante : religion, time travel, and the Victorian monarchy / Michael Ledger-Lomas -- "Whoso Humbleth himself shall be exalted, whoso exalteth himself shall be abased" : F.D. Maurice and the history of philosophy / Jocelyn Paul Betts -- "The borderland of the Bible" : M.R. James, the apocrypha and Christian antiquity in the late nineteenth century / Alison Knight and Scott Mandelbrote -- Words thrown out : Matthew Arnold's version of Isaih / Laura McCormick Kilbride -- Hellenism, hebraism and heathenism in nineteenth-century England : Connop Thirlwall, George Grote and the religions of antiquity / Brian Young -- Epilogue : Bible, antiquity, and the shock of the old / Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft |
Summary |
"This is the first book to establish how classical antiquity and the study of the Bible together formed Victorian ideas of the past, and consequently informed the very construction of modernity. Its multidisciplinary approach will be valuable to scholars and graduate students in numerous disciplines across the arts and humanities"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013628
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Bible fast |
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Classicism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Classicism -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Civilization, Classical.
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Civilization, Classical
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Classicism
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England
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Goldhill, Simon, editor
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Jackson Ravenscroft, Ruth, editor
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ISBN |
9781009306430 |
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100930643X |
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