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Near Eastern historiography (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


 		Keywords
historiography
Period
1st century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Jewish-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem 1.8-9:
… as is admitted by themselves (= the Greeks), the Egyptians, the Chaldeans, and the Phoenicians - for the moment I omit to add our nation to the list - possess a very ancient and permanent record of the past. For all these nations inhabit countries which are least exposed to the ravages of the atmosphere, and they have been very careful to let none of the events in their history be forgotten, but always to have them enshrined in official records written by their greatest sages.

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Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem 1.8-9

Bibliography

Thackeray 1926, I 164-167Thackeray, H. St. J. Josephus. 8 Vols. London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1926.

Amar Annus


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