Cities of God
Subtitle: The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781107004245
Subjects: Bible, antiquities; Archaeology; Middle east, antiquities
Description: "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"--