The Voice of the Historian in the Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean World

Writing history is never a neutral endeavor; it is a personal act in which the historian uses evidence to reconstruct, sometimes to recreate, the past. How, then, did the ancient historians make their presence felt in writing? What do their differences tell us about how they wrote history and unders...

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Auteur principal: Machinist, Peter (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: 2003
Dans: Interpretation
Année: 2003, Volume: 57, Numéro: 2, Pages: 117-137
Accès en ligne: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Édition parallèle:Non-électronique
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Résumé:Writing history is never a neutral endeavor; it is a personal act in which the historian uses evidence to reconstruct, sometimes to recreate, the past. How, then, did the ancient historians make their presence felt in writing? What do their differences tell us about how they wrote history and understood the world around them?
ISSN:2159-340X
Contient:Enthalten in: Interpretation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/002096430005700202