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Historiography
Historiography is the study of the methodology of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches
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We gunnen onszelf zo graag het beeld van de geschiedenis als een onontkoombare stroom, als een onvermijdelijke gang van A naar D via B en C. Vergeet het maar. Ook in deze geschiedenis – die tevens de onze is – wemelt het van de wissels die op het allerlaatst nog werden omgegooid, van de momenten waarop alles heel anders had kunnen verlopen, van de situaties die smeken om een ‘what if’, een ‘wat als’-analyse.
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― Wisselwachter
― Wisselwachter
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Jewish self-image and its historiographic reflection were transformed by the destruction of the state and temple and the exile of the Jewish people. But continuity was preserved in language and scripture, memory and commemoration. The rabbis were not only the supplanters but also the heirs and custodians of the old tradition from which they claimed to derive their own legitimacy. The situation in Persia and in other Middle Eastern countries was radically different. Here the conquest and conversi
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― Historians of the Middle East
― Historians of the Middle East
