Larsguy47

Exactly. And especially when you need historical REVISIONISM do you need to write history. It is not just enough to destroy current historical records, you have to aggressive write and publish the substitute history. Greeks got into "history" starting with the "father of history", Herodotus, primarily because of Persian historical revisionism surrounding Xerxes claiming he was Artaxerxes (i.e. the Persian kings adopted a new name when they became sole ruler, in this case Xerxes used this with the help of Themistocles to claim he was an entirely different king, his own son).

Sometimes history is recorded for the recorded, though, and Thucydides seems to have done so for the sake of the record, but he tends to be quite rare.

Larsguy47

Quintana Roo

I'm sorry for the misunderstanding Larsguy, gstafleu and Gamera. My post was quoting from Clivedurdle's original post where he said "It is almost as if the Biblical writers deliberately rewrote history from their perspective...", to which I responded "That's pretty much a given." Asimov's Guide to the Bible very clearly demonstrates this right from the get-go.
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