A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Vol 1: Yehud: A History of the Persian Province of Judah (Biblia.com)

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In this volume, Lester Grabbe presents a comprehensive history of Judah (Aramaic Yehud) during the Persian Period. Among the many crucial questions he addresses are: What are the sources for this period and how do we evaluate them? And how do we make them “speak” to us through the fog of centuries? Grabbe argues that there is a danger of seeing everything from a Judaeo-centric point of view, or...

Various terms are used for this position, including ‘qualified objectivism’ and ‘qualified realism’. We are all children of our times, to a lesser or greater extent. We each have our own prejudices, failings, weaknesses, blind spots. Any history we write will be influenced by these to some extent. Yet it is still possible to write a self-aware, critical history which attempts as far as possible to take into account personal obstacles to objectivity. One can write a historical account which is not

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