Table of Contents

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.

Promotional Information

This book shows how, in unearthing biblical cities, archaeology transformed nineteenth-century thinking on the truth of Christianity and its role in modern cities.

About the Author

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).

Reviews

'Present day travellers to the Holy Land … will certainly be able to broaden their knowledge.' Church Times