Mark Twain made famous the old quip, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” The point of the idiom is that even such supposedly “brute facts” as statistics can be interpreted to have multiple meanings. Numbers Don’t Lie: Historiography and Modernity Many people bemoan the study of history. After all, history [...]
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Hermeneutics: A Postmodern Take on Biblical Historiography
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