Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity

SIMON GOLDHILL is a Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, as well as the Foreign Secretary of the British Academy. He is one of the best-known classicists of his generation who has lectured all over the world, and he has appeared on TV and radio from Canada to Australia. His books have been translated into twelve languages and have won three international prizes. His most recent is The Christian Invention of Time (Cambridge, 2022). RUTH JACKSON RAVENSCROFt is an Undergraduate Tutor and Bye-Fellow in Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She is a theologian and philosopher of religion whose research has focussed primarily on nineteenth-century Germany. More broadly, she has also written on issues of gender, epistemology, and the relationship between theology and politics. She is the author of The Veiled God: Friedrich Schleiermacher's Theology of Finitude (2019).

Part I. Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity: The Shock of the Old: 1. Introduction: history, god, and me Simon Goldhill and Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft; 2. Genealogy, translation, and resistance: between the bible and the Greeks Simon Goldhill; 3. Herodotus, historian of the Hebrew people, without knowing it Suzanne L. Marchand; 4. The bible, classical antiquity, and the invention of Victorian art at the 1887 Manchester jubilee exhibition Kate Nichols; 5. The classical and biblical in dialogue: a conversation in Victorian sculpture Caroline Vout; 6. Dionysia in Bavaria: Greek Theatre, German Catholicism and the Cultural Uses of the Oberammergau Passion Play, 1830–1910 Robert D. Priest; 7. Popes and Caesars: St Paul, protestant bible culture, and the building of the American episcopal church in Rome G. A. Bremner; 8. Protestant travellers to Rome and the legacies of the apostolic church Dorothy M. Figueira and Brian H. Murray; 9. HMS Bacchante: religion, time travel, and the Victorian monarchy Michael Ledger-Lomas; 10. 'Whoso humbleth himself shall be exalted, whoso exalteth himself shall be abased': F. D. Maurice and the history of philosophy Jocelyn Paul Betts; 11. 'The borderland of the bible': M. R. James, the apocrypha, and Christian antiquity in the late nineteenth century Alison Knight and Scott Mandelbrote; 12. Words thrown out: Matthew Arnold's version of Isaiah Laura McCormick Kilbride; 13. Hellenism, Hebraism and heathenism in nineteenth-century England: Connop Thirlwall, George Grote and the religions of antiquity Brian Young; 14. Epilogue: bible, antiquity, and the shock of the old Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft; Acknowledgement; Bibliography; Index.