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Ancient conquest accounts : a study in ancient Near Eastern and Biblical history writing
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ISBN: 1281803278 9786611803278 0567488365 9780567488367 9781850752523 1850752524 9781281803276 6611803270 Year: 1990 Publisher: Sheffield, England : JSOT Press,

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Works on Old Testament historiography, the 'Conquest', and the origins of ancient Israel have burgeoned in recent days. But while others have been issuing new reconstructions this novel work presents a close reading of the biblical text. The focus is on the literary techniques that ancient writers employed in narrating stories of conquest, and the aim is to pinpoint their communicative intentions in their own contexts. This reading is enhanced by engagement with the important discipline of the philosophy of history. Ancient Conquest accounts, replete with extensive quotations from Assyrian, Hi


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Faithful narratives : historians, religion, and the challenge of objectivity
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ISBN: 9780801451829 9780801478574 0801451825 080147857X 0801471044 0801471052 1322522189 9780801471049 9781322522180 9780801471056 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, New York : Cornell University Press,

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Historians of religion face complex interpretive issues when examining religious texts, practices, and experiences. Faithful Narratives presents the work of twelve eminent scholars whose research has exemplified compelling strategies for negotiating the difficulties inherent in this increasingly important area of historical inquiry. The chapters range chronologically from Late Antiquity to modern America and thematically from the spirituality of near eastern monks to women's agency in religion, considering familiar religious communities alongside those on the margins and bringing a range of spiritual and religious practices into historical focus.Focusing on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the essays address matters central to the study of religion in history, in particular texts and traditions of authority, interreligious discourse, and religious practice and experience. Some examine mainstream communities and traditions, others explore individuals who crossed religious or confessional boundaries, and still others study the peripheries of what is considered orthodox religious tradition. Encompassing a wide geographical as well as chronological scope, Faithful Narratives illustrates the persistence of central themes and common analytical challenges for historians working in all periods.Contributors: Peter Brown, Princeton University; Nina Caputo, University of Florida; Carlos Eire, Yale University; Susanna Elm, University of California, Berkeley; Anthony Grafton, Princeton University; Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College; Phyllis Mack, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Kenneth Mills, University of Toronto; David Nirenberg, University of Chicago; Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame; David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania; Lamin Sanneh, Yale University; Andrea Sterk, University of Florida; John Van Engen, University of Notre Dame.


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The Oxford history of historical writing. : beginnings to AD 600
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ISBN: 9780199236428 9780199218158 9780199219179 9780199533091 9780199225996 0199218153 0198737807 0191036781 019180424X 0199236429 0199533091 0199219176 9780198737988 9780198738008 0198738005 019873798X 9780198737995 0198737971 0198737998 9780198737971 9780198737803 9780191036781 0199225990 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Volume I of The Oxford History of Historical Writing offers essays by leading scholars on the development and history of the major traditions of historical writing, including the ancient Near East, Classical Greece and Rome, and East and South Asia from their origins until ca. AD 600. It aims at once to provide an authoritative survey of the field and to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. This is the first of five volumes in a series that will explore representations ofthe past from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world.

Modernizing England's past : English historiography in the age of modernism, 1870-1970
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ISBN: 9780521841788 052184178X 9780521602662 0521602661 9780511616181 0511146809 9780511146800 0511146574 9780511146572 051161618X 1280330759 9781280330759 0511145780 9780511145780 0511146221 9780511146220 1107151449 0511312164 0511145330 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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What came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? By thinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind of English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, this book reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers a full analysis of English historiography in this crucial period. Modernist historiography set itself the objective of going beyond the colourful narratives of 'whigs' and 'popularizers' in order to establish history as the queen of the humanities and as a rival to the sciences as a vehicle of knowledge. Professor Bentley does not follow those who deride modernism as 'positivist' or 'empiricist' but instead shows how it set in train brilliant new styles of investigation that transformed how historians understood the English past. But he shows how these strengths were eventually outweighed by inherent confusions and misapprehensions that threatened to kill the very subject that the modernists had intended to sustain.


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Historiografie: vijfentwintig eeuwen geschiedschrijving van West-Europa
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ISBN: 9061863619 9023225368 9789061863618 Year: 1990 Volume: 8 Publisher: Leuven: Universitaire pers,


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Le monde de l'histoire religieuse : essais d'historiographie

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L’Histoire religieuse est devenue, pour les périodes moderne et contemporaine, un secteur de recherche historique particulièrement active dans l’Université française. Colloques, thèses, éditions scientifiques de documents, se sont multipliés au cours des dernières décennies, permettant la reconnaissance des facteurs religieux dans l’histoire. Etienne Fouilloux a pu évoquer « une percée de l’histoire religieuse en France ». Il est important, d’un point de vue méthodologique, de ne pas réduire les recherches aux observations franco-françaises, particulièrement face aux phénomènes religieux qui ont une dimension universelle. Or les historiographies ont trop souvent tendance à s’ignorer et à n’évoluer que dans un cadre national. Dans les limites géographiques et thématiques qui sont les siennes (de nombreux espaces sont absents, et le propos se limite pour l’essentiel au christianisme), ce volume propose d’établir des ponts entre des universitaires confrontés à des question semblables, mais qui restent séparés par les logiques nationales, voire par les langues. L’équipe Religions, Sociétés et Acculturation (RESEA) du Laboratoire de Recherche historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA, UMR 5190) a donc organisé deux Journées d’Études en 2008 et 2009, afin de confronter les points de vue, à partir de cadres nationaux divers : pays où l’histoire religieuse occupe une place notable et quasiment traditionnelle dans le paysage universitaire (Belgique, Italie, Allemagne, Suisse, Pays-Bas), la France où elle s’insère dans la dimension laïque, des pays où elle a été confrontée au contrôle et à l’instrumentalisation de la dictature (Pologne, Espagne), l’Afrique où le poids de l’histoire missionnaire et de la colonisation reste grand, l’Amérique du Nord où elle s’est développée dans un contexte de grande diversité religieuse. Les approches, les thématiques, les évolutions sont différentes, les méthodes restent proches.

That noble dream : the "objectivity question" and the American historical profession
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ISBN: 9780521357456 9780521343282 9780511816345 9781107266773 1107266777 9781107263208 1107263204 0511816340 0521343283 0521357454 9789686914658 968691465X 1139881787 1107263603 1107264286 1107269849 Year: 1988 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The aspiration to relate the past 'as it really happened' has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Eugene Genovese, That Noble Dream is a richly textured account of what American historians have thought they were doing, or ought to be doing, when they wrote history - how their principles influenced their practice and practical exigencies influenced their principles.

The idea of history in rabbinic Judaism
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ISBN: 1280465204 9786610465200 1423714539 9047402782 9781423714538 9789004135833 9004135839 9789047402787 9004135839 Year: 2003 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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History provides one way of marking time. But there are others, and the Judaism of the dual Torah, set forth in the Rabbinic literature from the Mishnah through the Talmud of Babylonia, ca. 200-600 C.E., defines one such alternative. This book tells the story of how a historical way of thinking about past, present, and future, time and eternity, the here and now in relationship to the ages, « that is, Scripture's way of thinking » gave way to another mode of thought altogether. This other model Neusner calls a paradigm, because a pattern imposed meaning and order on things that happened. Paradigmatic modes of thought took the place of historical ones. Thinking through paradigms, with a conception of time that elides past and present and removes all barriers between them, in fact governs the reception of Scripture in Judaism until nearly our own time. Neusner here explains through the single case of Rabbinic Judaism, precisely how that other way of reading Scripture did its work, and why, for so many centuries, that reading of the heritage of ancient Israel governed. At stake are [1] a conception of time different from the historical one and [2] premises on how to take the measure of time that form a legitimate alternative to those that define the foundations of the historical way of measuring time. Fully exposed, those alternative premises may prove as logical and compelling as the historical ones. The approach follows the documentary history of ideas, and individual chapters describe the treatment of historical topics in the Mishnah, the Talmud of the Land of Israel (a.k.a., the Yerushalmi), Genesis Rabbah, that is, ca. 200, 400, and 450 CE, and Pesiqta deRab Kahana, ca. 500 CE.


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Historiographie in der Antike
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ISBN: 9783110188905 3110188902 9786612196676 1282196677 3110206722 9783110206722 9781282196674 661219667X Year: 2008 Volume: 373 Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Walter De Gruyter,

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Historiographical documents from Ancient Greece have existed at least since the time of Herodotus; an historical awareness developed before his time, as evidenced in historical omnia, epic literature from Mesopotamia, in the texts of Hittite letters and treaties, and in Egyptian sources. The book explores the conceptual and formal characteristics of texts from different contexts and epochs from the 3rd millennium until the 5th century AD, together with the evolution of historical awareness and interest in historiography.

Jahre, jahrwochen und jubilaen : heptadische geschichtskonzeptionen im antiken Judentum
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ISBN: 3110190540 9786612195129 1282195123 3110200767 9783110190540 9783110200768 Year: 2006 Volume: 363 Publisher: Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter,

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Die Arbeit bietet die erste Untersuchung aller heptadisch strukturierten Geschichtsentwürfe aus der Zeit des Zweiten Tempels. Behandelt werden Dan 9, das äthiopische Henochbuch, das Jubiläenbuch, die Qumrantexte und das Testament Levis. Durch detaillierte Einzelexegesen wird gezeigt, dass jeder Text ein individuelles geschichtstheologisches Profil aufweist. Im Hintergrund der zu verzeichnenden Gemeinsamkeiten steht keine universell gültige Referenzchronologie, sondern die Arbeit mit denselben chronologischen Traditionen, die je nach theologischem Interesse überformt werden. This study presents the first analysis of all the heptadically structured models of Jewish history from the time of the Second Temple. It deals with Daniel 9, the Ethiopian Book of Henoch, the Book of Jubilees, the Qumran texts and the Testament of Levi. Detailed individual exegesis shows that each text displays an individual theology of history. There is no universally valid reference chronology behind those commonalities which can be registered; instead, the writers work with the same chronological traditions, but restructure them according to their own theological interests.

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