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Dear Samuel,
Much of what you say is true, but you seem to be
afflicted with "scholaritis," the mistaken belief that scholars can be
"objective."
First, the construction of ancient history
will always involve interpretation of the evidence. Unlike mathematics,
biolology, physics, and other sciences, history cannot be placed into controlled
environments and tested by repeated experimentation.
Second, every interpretation involves
preunderstandings, presuppositions, etc.
Thirdly, no act of interpretation can be done
dispassionately.
No historian is dispassionate. He/she brings
a belief system to the act of interpreting historical evidence. Modern
historians cannot even agree on Christopher Columbus or Abraham Lincoln.
It is no wonder that there are disagreements on ancient history.
Samuel Payne wrote:
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