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...

Windschuttle (l997) The Killing of History; Zagorin (1999) ‘History, the Referent, and Narrative’; Zammito (1993) ‘Are We Being Theoretical Yet? The New Historicism’. Currently, there is a rather fierce debate concerning whether and in what way one can write a history of ancient Israel. This debate will be discussed in the next section; however, the debate on the history of Israel needs to be understood in the context of a much larger debate among contemporary historians and the development of the

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