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... writers were Hellenized Jews . A curious inhibition prevented the writing of history among the orthodox Jews . In the days of Jesus the Jews of Palestine were not engaged in writing books . It is not too much to say that a Jerusalem or ...
... writers were Hellenized Jews . A curious inhibition prevented the writing of history among the orthodox Jews . In the days of Jesus the Jews of Palestine were not engaged in writing books . It is not too much to say that a Jerusalem or ...
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... writers , especially the earlier Arabic historians ( that is , Arabic - writing , for most of them were Persians by race ) , such as Tabari , Mas'udi , Dinawari and the like , who drew for the most part their materials from Arabic ...
... writers , especially the earlier Arabic historians ( that is , Arabic - writing , for most of them were Persians by race ) , such as Tabari , Mas'udi , Dinawari and the like , who drew for the most part their materials from Arabic ...
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... writing was eminently realistic . This is exempli- fied in the abundance of economic and social information found in many writers . Burckhardt has asserted that Florence and Venice were the original homes of the science of statistics ...
... writing was eminently realistic . This is exempli- fied in the abundance of economic and social information found in many writers . Burckhardt has asserted that Florence and Venice were the original homes of the science of statistics ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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