Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity

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.