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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013

1 online resource (377 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9781107503458 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781107004245 (hardback)

Print version: Cities of God : the Bible and archaeology in nineteenth-century Britain. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 xii, 363 pages ISBN 9781107004245

Includes bibliographical references and index

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.

"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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(OCoLC)862077330