16.7 4th year Dr M Baker. Second semester A 2-hour seminar per week. to explore Jewish perspectives on the writing of history and to understand how the different traditions of Jewish historiography evolved; to appreciate the impact of modernity on Jewish historical writing. A study of the various ways in which Jews throughout the ages have attempted to elucidate the meaning of their historical experience. Examples of historical writing from the Bible to the present will be explored, including the writings on history of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud. Themes to be discussed include history and ideology, questions of causality and periodisation in Jewish history, teleology and messianic perspectives, interpretations of religion, nationality and culture in Jewish historiography. Written work amounting to no more than 6,000 words. Meyer, M. , Ideas of Jewish History (New York, 1971) Yerushalmi, Y. H. , Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory (New York, 1989) 16.7 4th year Dr M Baker. Second semester A 2-hour seminar per week. to explore Jewish perspectives on the writing of history and to understand how the different traditions of Jewish historiography evolved; to appreciate the impact of modernity on Jewish historical writing. A study of the various ways in which Jews throughout the ages have attempted to elucidate the meaning of their historical experience. Examples of historical writing from the Bible to the present will be explored, including the writings on history of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud. Themes to be discussed include history and ideology, questions of causality and periodisation in Jewish history, teleology and messianic perspectives, interpretations of religion, nationality and culture in Jewish historiography. Written work amounting to no more than 6,000 words. Meyer, M. , Ideas of Jewish History (New York, 1971) Yerushalmi, Y. H. , Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory (New York, 1989)