{"product_id":"thinking-recording-and-writing-history-in-the-ancient-world-hardback-9781118412503","title":"Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World (Hardback) 9781118412503","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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 new approach conceptually. Thus it gives new answers to the old question: what is history?”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e--Jörn Rüsen,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eInstitute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“In this excellent anthology, internationally renowned experts of historical thinking and writing embed their predecessors’ ideas in their respective contexts. Furthermore, they convincingly explain the differences between pre-modern forms of historical thinking and the conceptual categories we use today.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e--Josef Wiesehöfer, The University of Kiel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKurt A. Raaflaub (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781118412503, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 December 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e440 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.3 x 17.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.839 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThinking, Recording, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand Writing History in the Ancient World\u003c\/i\u003e presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the past and recorded their own histories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by an international group of scholars working in many disciplines\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTruly cross-cultural, covering historical thinking and writing in ancient or early cultures across in East, South, and West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes historiography shaped by religious perspectives, including Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Editor’s Preface vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKurt A. Raaflaub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 On Being Historical 6\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Carr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Task and Ritual of Historical Writing in Early China 19\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephen W. Durrant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 History and Primordium in Ancient Indian Historical Writing: Itihāsa and Purānòa in the Mahābhārata and Beyond 41\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames L. Fitzgerald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Historical Consciousness and Historical Traditions in Early North India 61\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRomila Thapar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in Ancient Japan: The Nihon shoki as a Text of Transition 79\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristian Oberländer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 As the Dharmacakra Turns: Buddhist and Jain Macrohistorical Narratives of the Past, Present, and Future 97\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJason Neelis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 History as Festival? A Reassessment of the Use of the Past and the Place of Historiography in Ancient Egyptian Thought 117\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas Schneider\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Presence of the Past in Early Mesopotamian Writings 144\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePiotr Michalowski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 “Two Old Tablets”: Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in Hittite Society 169\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTheo van den Hout\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Thinking and Writing about History in Teispid and Achaemenid Persia 187\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert Rollinger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Historical Texts in the Hebrew Bible? 213\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarc Zvi Brettler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Many Faces of the Past in Archaic and Classical Greece 234\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJonas Grethlein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 How the Romans Remembered, Recorded, Thought About, and Used Their Past 256\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndreas Mehl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Patterns of Early Christian Thinking and Writing of History: Paul – Mark – Acts 276\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEve-Marie Becker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Byzantine historia 297\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStratis Papaioannou\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Past in the Early and Medieval Islamic Middle East (circa 750–circa 1250) 314\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Marsham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Sources and Scales of Classic Maya History 340\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNicholas P. 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