Title: Historiography and Historical Thought: Jewish Tradition
Abstract: This article combines a brief analysis of premodern Jewish historical traditions from the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic sources to sixteenth-century chronicles with a stronger emphasis on modern Jewish historiography as it emerged in the early nineteenth century. It points to the fact that modern Jewish historiography did not grow out of earlier Jewish historical traditions but rather out of the critical approaches that characterized the early nineteenth century German academic environment. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries several schools of Jewish history writing developed, usually influenced by their immediate environment.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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