Historical reporting in the Ancient World1

A. W. Mosley

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Historical reporting in the Ancient World1

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A. W. Mosley

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When people living in Palestine, Asia Minor, Greece and Rome in the first century A.D. were given reports of events which had happened in the past, were they concerned to ask the question: ‘Did it happen in this way?’

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Information: New Testament Studies , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , October 1965 , pp. 10 - 26

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^{page 23 note 2} Against Apion, 1, par. 9.

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