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Informationen zum Autor David Gange is a Lecturer in History at the University of Birmingham. He is author of Dialogues with the Dead: Egyptology in British Culture and Religion (2013). Michael Ledger-Lomas is Lecturer in the History of Christianity at King's College London. He is editor, with Scott Mandelbrote, of Dissent and the Bible, c.1650–1950 (2013). Klappentext This book shows how, in unearthing biblical cities, archaeology transformed nineteenth-century thinking on the truth of Christianity and its role in modern cities. Zusammenfassung In unearthing the cities of the Bible! archaeology transformed nineteenth-century thinking on the truth of Christianity and its place in modern cities. This book shows how anxieties about Christianity's fate in the urban world made cities from Jerusalem to Rome contested models for the role of Christianity in modern culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Michael Ledger-Lomas and David Gange; 1. Troy David Gange and Rachel Bryant Davies; 2. Jerusalem Simon Goldhill; 3. Nineveh Tim Larsen; 4. Pithom David Gange; 5. Babylon Michael Seymour; 6. Sodom Astrid Swenson; 7. Bethlehem Eitan Bar-Yosef; 8. Ephesus Michael Ledger-Lomas; 9. Rome Jane Garnett and Anne Bush.
