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Rewriting Ancient Jewish History - The History of the Jews in Roman Times and the New Historical Method (Hardcover)
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Rewriting Ancient Jewish History - The History of the Jews in Roman Times and the New Historical Method (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History
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Half a century ago, the primary contours of the history of the Jews
in Roman times were not subject to much debate. This standard
account collapsed, however, when a handful of insights undermined
the traditional historical method, the method long enlisted by
historians for eliciting facts from sources. In response to these
insights, a new historical method gradually emerged. Rewriting
Ancient Jewish History critiques the traditional historical method
and makes a case for the new one, illustrating how to write anew
ancient Jewish history. At the heart of the traditional historical
method lie three fundamental presumptions. The traditional
historical method regularly presumes that multiple versions of a
text or tradition are equally authentic; it presumes that many
ancient Jewish sources are the products of largely immanent forces
of cloistered Jewish communities; and, barring any local grounds
for suspicion, it presumes that most ancient Jewish texts
faithfully reflect their sources and reliably recount events.
Rewriting Ancient Jewish History unfurls the failings of this
approach; it promotes the new historical method which circumvents
the flawed traditional presumptions while plotting anew the limits
of rational argumentation in historical inquiry. This crucial
reappraisal is a must-read for students of Jewish and Roman history
alike, and a fascinating case-study in how historians should
approach their ancient sources.
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