We and They: Decolonizing Greco-Roman and Biblical Antiquities

by Jonathan Cahana-Blum (Contributor), Karmen MacKendrick (Editor)

The articles collected in this volume share a very similar to decolonize our understanding of antiquity, thus allowing modernity to converse with antiquity without constraining the latter to be either the direct precedent or the thoroughly other of the former. It is certainly true that the past is a foreign country. However, history has repeatedly demonstrated that colonialism never contributed to mutual understanding and constructive exchange of ideas, and that such is the dialogue we should strive forthwith our contemporaries as well as with our ancestors.

200 pages, Hardcover

Published September 27, 2019