254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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A distillation of the thought and research to which Herbert Butterfield devoted the last twenty years of his life to, this book, originally published in 1981, traces how differently people understood the relevance of their past and its connection with their religion. It examines ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia; the political perceptiveness of the Hittites; the Jewish sense of God in history, of... Read more
1. The Origins of Historical Writing 2. The Annals of the Pre-Classical Empires 3. The Originality of the Hebrew Scriptures 4. The Rise of Classical Historiography 5. The Chinese Tradition of Historical Writing 6. The Establishment of a Christian Historiography 7. The Development of Historical Criticism 8. The Great Secularisation. Appendix: A Chinese Historian – Ssŭ-ma Ch’ien
Biography
Herbert Butterfield
