Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XI
4. Part I: INTRODUCTION
5. CHAPTER I .Definition and Scope of History 3
6. CHAPTER II. The Interpretation of History 14
7. CHAPTER III. Prehistory; Myth and Legend 36
8. CHAPTER IV. Books and Writing 51
9. CHAPTER V. The Measuring of Time 63
10. CHAPTER VI. Egyptian Annals 74
11. CHAPTER VII. Babylonian, Assyrian, and Persian Records 88
12. Part II :JEWISH HISTORY
13. CHAPTER VIII. The Old Testament as History 107
14. CHAPTER IX .The Pentateuch 113
15. CHAPTER X. The Remaining Historical Books of the Old Testament 124
16. CHAPTER XI. The Formation of the Canon 136
17. CHAPTER XII. Non-Biblical Literature; Josephus 142
18. Part III: GREEK HISTORY
19. CHAPTER XIII: From Homer to Herodotus 161
20. CHAPTER XIV .Herodotus 177
21. CHAPTER XV. Thucydides 193
22. CHAPTER XVI .Rhetoric and Scholarship 214
23. CHAPTER XVII. Polybius 230
24. CHAPTER XVIII. Later Greek Historians 242
25. Part IV :ROMAN HISTORY
26. CHAPTER XIX. History at Rome; Oratory and Poetry 255
27. CHAPTER XX. Roman Annalists and Early Historians 270
28. CHAPTER XXI. Varrò, Caesar, and Sallust 281
29. CHAPTER XXII. Livy 291
30. CHAPTER XXIII. Tacitus 301
31. CHAPTER XXIV. From Suetonius to Ammianus Marcellinus 316
32. PART V: CHRISTIANITY AND HISTORY
33. CHAPTER XXV. The New Era 325
34. CHAPTER XXVI: Allegory and the Contribution of Origen 336
35. CHAPTER XXVI: Allegory and the Contribution of Origen 347
36. CHAPTER XXVIII. The City of God 364
37. INDEX 381