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- Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity
- Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Antiquity’s Modernity
- 2 Genealogy, Translation, and Resistance
- 3 Herodotus, Historian of the Hebrew People, Without Knowing It
- Part II Making the Past Visible
- Part III Materiality and Spectacle
- Part IV Travelling the World
- Part V Manuscripts, Morality, and Metaphysics
- Part VI Intellectual Superstars
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Genealogy, Translation, and Resistance
Between the Bible and the Greeks
from Part I - Antiquity’s Modernity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2023
- Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity
- Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Antiquity’s Modernity
- 2 Genealogy, Translation, and Resistance
- 3 Herodotus, Historian of the Hebrew People, Without Knowing It
- Part II Making the Past Visible
- Part III Materiality and Spectacle
- Part IV Travelling the World
- Part V Manuscripts, Morality, and Metaphysics
- Part VI Intellectual Superstars
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter looks at how Victorians constructed a genealogical relation to antiquity and the Bible, forming both as a cultural, intellectual and spiritual origin for modernity. It shows how philology was the discipline which linked theology and classics as disciplines, and how historiography and archaeology were mobilized to understand the present as the outcome of the past. In particular, it looks at how William Gladstone, Matthew Arnold, Brooke Foss Westcott, Charles Kingsley, and Henry Montagu Butle, used translation, Homeric studies, historical fiction and cultural history to forge a contentious and contested relation between the biblical and classical pasts and modernity.
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- Victorian Engagements with the Bible and AntiquityThe Shock of the Old, pp. 19 - 46Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023