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Historical reporting in the Ancient World1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2009
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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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