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„This book meets three demands of the humanities today: transcending the Western perspective into a universal one; addressing the broad variety of cultures; and reflecting this newapproach conceptually. Thus it gives new answers to the oldquestion: what is history?“
--Jörn Rüsen, Institute for Advanced Study inthe Humanities in Essen
"In this excellent anthology, internationally renownedexperts of historical thinking and writing embed theirpredecessors' ideas in their respective contexts. Furthermore, they convincingly explain the differences betweenpre-modern forms of historical thinking and the conceptualcategories we use today."
--Josef Wiesehöfer, The University of Kiel
Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World
von Kurt A. RaaflaubThinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the past and recorded their own histories.
* Written by an international group of scholars working in many disciplines
* Truly cross-cultural, covering historical thinking and writing in ancient or early cultures across in East, South, and West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas
* Includes historiography shaped by religious perspectives, including Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism
