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Victorian engagements with the Bible and antiquity : the shock of the old

Title
Victorian engagements with the Bible and antiquity : the shock of the old / edited by Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge, Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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Additional Authors
  • Goldhill, Simon
  • Jackson Ravenscroft, Ruth
  • Cambridge University Press
Description
1 online resource.
Subject
  • Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > History > 19th century
  • 1800-1899
  • Classicism > United States > History > 19th century
  • Classicism > England > History > 19th century
  • Civilization, Classical
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
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.
ISBN
  • 9781009306430
  • 100930643X
OCLC
om3525842260
Title
Victorian engagements with the Bible and antiquity : the shock of the old / edited by Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge, Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
Source of description
Print version record.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Added Author
Goldhill, Simon, editor.
Jackson Ravenscroft, Ruth, editor.
Cambridge University Press
Other Form:
Print version: Victorian engagements with the Bible and antiquity 9781009306454 (DLC) 2023000657
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