Interpretation A Journal of Bible and Theology · 2003 · 18 citations · 0 references
HumanitiesArchaeologyHistoryAncient HistoryHistorical ArchaeologyHistoriographyAncient HistoriographyAncient Intellectual HistoryAncient Near Eastern CivilizationsAncient Near Eastern HistoryHistorical NarrativeHistory Of Historical WritingHistorical BiographyHistoriography Of AntiquityLate Antique HistoriographyReception Of Classical HistoriansReception Of Historians
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?