Conscious of their special role as gods ' 'chosen people,'' the Jews wrote history as a chronicle of their continuing and evolving relationship with the creator (HP3). ... Not so many people emphasized economic factors like Beard and fewer would disagree that the economic "question" should be asked to understand any given segment of the past. ... He explains in his 1935 essay called "the Noble Dream," The main point of Beard's essay is that the noble dream of historians for objective truth only through scientific study of history is not right. The...

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