Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World

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Copyright

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Contents

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Series Editor’s Preface

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Notes on Contributors

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Introduction

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1 On Being Historical

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2 The Task and Ritual of Historical Writing in Early China

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3 History and Primordium in Ancient Indian Historical Writing: Itihasa and Puraṇa in the Mahabhaata and Beyond

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4 Historical Consciousness and Historical Traditions in Early North India

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5 Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in Ancient Japan: The Nihon shoki as a Text of Transition

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6 As the Dharmacakra Turns: Buddhist and Jain Macrohistorical Narratives of the Past, Present, and Future

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7 History as Festival? A Reassessment of the Use of the Past and the Place of Historiography in Ancient Egyptian Thought

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8 The Presence of the Past in Early Mesopotamian Writings

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9 “Two Old Tablets”: Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in Hittite Society

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10 Thinking and Writing about History in Teispid and Achaemenid Persia

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11 Historical Texts in the Hebrew Bible?

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12 The Many Faces of the Past in Archaic and Classical Greece

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13 How the Romans Remembered, Recorded, Thought About, and Used Their Past

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14 Patterns of Early Christian Thinking and Writing of History: Paul – Mark – Acts

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15 Byzantine historia

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16 The Past in the Early and Medieval Islamic Middle East (circa 750–circa 1250)

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17 Sources and Scales of Classic Maya History

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18 The Poetics and Politics of Aztec History

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19 Corn and Her Story Traveled: Reading North American Graphic Texts in Relation to Oral Traditions

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Index

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LastPages

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