Cities of God : the Bible and archaeology in nineteenth-century Britain / David Gange, Michael Ledger-Lomas. [electronic resource]

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (377 pages) : illustrationsISBN:

9781107503458 (e-book)

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cities of God : the Bible and archaeology in nineteenth-century Britain.DDC classification:

220.9/3094109034 23

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BS620 .C53 2013

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Contents:

Introduction / Michael Ledger-Lomas and David Gange -- Troy / David Gange and Rachel Bryant Davies -- Jerusalem / Simon Goldhill -- Nineveh / Tim Larsen -- Pithom / David Gange -- Babylon / Michael Seymour -- Sodom / Astrid Swenson -- Bethlehem / Eitan Bar-Yosef -- Ephesus / Michael Ledger-Lomas -- Rome / Jane Garnett and Anne Bush.

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Ebook	TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online	eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.