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Cities of God - The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Paperback)
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Cities of God - The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Paperback)
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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.
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