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A brilliant exposition of how the Bible and classical antiquity are central to the formation of Victorian self-understanding. Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: History, God, and Me -- Part I Antiquity's Modernity -- 2 Genealogy, Translation, and Resistance: Between the Bible and the Greeks -- 3 Herodotus, Historian of the Hebrew People, Without Knowing It -- Part II Making the Past Visible -- 4 The Bible, Classical Antiquity, and the Invention of Victorian Art at the 1887 Manchester Jubilee Exhibition -- 5 The Classical and Biblical in Dialogue: A Conversation in Victorian Sculpture -- Part III Materiality and Spectacle -- 6 Dionysia in Bavaria: Greek Theatre, German Catholicism, and the Cultural Uses of the Oberammergau Passion Play, 1830-1910 -- 7 'Popes and Caesars': St Paul, Protestant Bible Culture, and the Building of the American Episcopal Church in Rome -- Part IV Travelling the World -- 8 Protestant Travellers to Rome and the Legacies of the Apostolic Church -- 9 HMS Bacchante: Religion, Time Travel, and the Victorian Monarchy -- Part V Manuscripts, Morality, and Metaphysics -- 10 'Whoso Humbleth Himself Shall Be Exalted, Whoso Exalteth Himself Shall Be Abased': F. D. Maurice and the History of Philosophy -- 11 'The Borderland of the Bible': M. R. James, the Apocrypha, and Christian Antiquity in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Part VI Intellectual Superstars: The Limits of Religion -- 12 Words Thrown Out: Matthew Arnold's Version of Isaiah -- 13 Hellenism, Hebraism, and Heathenism in Nineteenth-Century England: Connop Thirlwall, George Grote, and the Religions of Antiquity -- 14 Epilogue: Bible, Antiquity, and the Shock of the Old -- Bibliography -- Index.
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