The God of History
The God of History
This chapter reviews three biographical works on Jewish historians and historiography. These are “Shmuel Ettinger: Historian, teacher and public figure,” by Yaakov Barna, “Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jew,” by Albert I. Baumgarten and “Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History,” by Michael Brenner. This chapter analyzes the impartiality and objectivity of the historians in their accounts of the Jewish experience and the presentation of men and events as part of universal history and not as a link between the Hebrew Scriptures and the rabbinic period.
Keywords: Jewish historians, Shmuel Ettinger, Yaakov Barna, Elias Bickerman, Albert I. Baumgarten, Prophets, Jewish History, Michael Brenner, universal history, Hebrew Scriptures, rabbinic period
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