Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World

Series Editor   s Preface vii     Notes on Contributors ix     Introduction 1  Kurt A. Raaflaub     1 On Being Historical 6  David Carr     2 The Task and Ritual of Historical Writing in Early China 19  Stephen W. Durrant     3 History and Primordium in Ancient Indian Historical Writing: Itiha  sa and Pura  noa in the Maha  bha  rata and Beyond 41  James L. Fitzgerald     4 Historical Consciousness and Historical Traditions in Early North India 61  Romila Thapar     5 Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in Ancient Japan: The Nihon shoki as a Text of Transition 79  Christian Oberlander     6 As the Dharmacakra Turns: Buddhist and Jain Macrohistorical Narratives of the Past, Present, and Future 97  Jason Neelis     7 History as Festival? A Reassessment of the Use of the Past and the Place of Historiography in Ancient Egyptian Thought 117  Thomas Schneider     8 The Presence of the Past in Early Mesopotamian Writings 144  Piotr Michalowski     9    Two Old Tablets   : Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in Hittite Society 169  Theo van den Hout     10 Thinking and Writing about History in Teispid and Achaemenid Persia 187  Robert Rollinger     11 Historical Texts in the Hebrew Bible? 213  Marc Zvi Brettler     12 The Many Faces of the Past in Archaic and Classical Greece 234  Jonas Grethlein     13 How the Romans Remembered, Recorded, Thought About, and Used Their Past 256  Andreas Mehl     14 Patterns of Early Christian Thinking and Writing of History: Paul     Mark     Acts 276  Eve-Marie Becker     15 Byzantine historia 297  Stratis Papaioannou     16 The Past in the Early and Medieval Islamic Middle East (circa 750   circa 1250) 314  Andrew Marsham     17 Sources and Scales of Classic Maya History 340  Nicholas P. Carter     18 The Poetics and Politics of Aztec History 372  Lori Boornazian Diel     19 Corn and Her Story Traveled: Reading North American Graphic Texts in Relation to Oral Traditions 391  Lisa Brooks     Index 417