{"product_id":"thinking-recording-and-writing-history-in-the-ancient-world-isbn-9781118412503","title":"Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World","description":"\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  \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. Carter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Poetics and Politics of Aztec History 372\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLori Boornazian Diel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Corn and Her Story Traveled: Reading North American Graphic Texts in Relation to Oral Traditions 391\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLisa Brooks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKurt A. Raaflaub\u003c\/b\u003e is David Herlihy University Professor, and Professor of Classics and History, emeritus at Brown University. His publications include \u003ci\u003eThe Discovery of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eOrigins of Democracy in Ancient Greece\u003c\/i\u003e (with Josiah Ober and Robert Wallace, 2007), \u003ci\u003eThe Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e (ed., with Johann P. Arnason, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), \u003ci\u003eGeography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies\u003c\/i\u003e (with Richard J. A. Talbert, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), and \u003ci\u003eThe Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy: A Politico-Cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations\u003c\/i\u003e (ed., with Johann P. Arnason and Peter Wager, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWhen and why did ancient peoples begin to think about the past, record, and write history? \u003ci\u003eThinking, Recording,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand Writing History in the Ancient World\u003c\/i\u003e explores the many ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the past, recorded it, and wrote their own histories – and the role of historical thinking and writing in ancient societies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemonstrating how a concern about the past and thoughts of history are hallmarks of all developed civilizations, this collection discusses the ways in which such thoughts and concerns found expression in various ancient or early cultures. An international group of scholars working in many disciplines contribute chapters that address historical thinking and writing in a range of ancient cultures in East, South, and West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas. They also discuss historiography shaped by religious perspectives, including Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy presenting a cross-cultural comparison of early societies’ attempts to deal with the past, \u003ci\u003eThinking, Recording,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand Writing History in the Ancient World\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers invaluable insights into pre-modern historical thinking and writing.\u003c\/p\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. 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