Amos Funkenstein

Modern Jewish historiography is the modern iteration of Jewish historical narrative writing and historical literature. While Jewish oral history and the collection of commentaries in the Midrash and Talmud are ancient, the rise of the printing press and movable type in the early modern period led to the publication of Jewish histories and early editions of the Torah/Tanakh that dealt with the history of Jewish diaspora ethno-religious groups, and increasingly, national histories of the Jews, Jew…