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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 December 2013
      17 October 2013
      ISBN:
      9780511783647
      9781107004245
      9781316625651
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511783647
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.9kg, 372 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.66kg, 376 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeology of Europe and The Near and Middle East, Archaeology
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    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeology of Europe and The Near and Middle East, Archaeology
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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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    'Present day travellers to the Holy Land … will certainly be able to broaden their knowledge.'

    Source: Church Times

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