Timeline for How accurate and balanced is Paul Johnson's 'A History of the Jews'?
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| Jan 3, 2021 at 14:22 | history | edited | gktscrk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2021 at 14:20 | comment | added | gktscrk | @MarkC.Wallace: It's my opinion this type of questions should be encouraged. "Accurate and balanced" isn't a controversial thing to say, and the OP will choose the correct answer based on the reasoning that is provided in the answer (just like with any other type of answers). Anyone can claim anything, but those claims need to be supported. | |
| Jan 3, 2021 at 5:35 | history | protected | Pieter Geerkens | ||
| Jan 2, 2021 at 23:02 | history | reopened |
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| Jan 2, 2021 at 17:01 | comment | added | MCW♦ | My prior comment notwithstanding, the core question is fundamental to historiography. How do we evaluate the bias of sources, particularly in the early stages of research. How can we help shadowtaker to revise this question to better fit this site? Would it make more sense to ask "What is the bias of X?" | |
| Jan 2, 2021 at 15:40 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Jan 2, 2021 at 15:39 | comment | added | MCW♦ | Because "accurate and balanced" is intrinsically a subjective term. If Answer 1 says "Yes, it is fair" and answer 2 says "no, it is biased" how will you identify which one is correct? each author believes that they are correct, fair and unbalanced and that the other is not. There is no international standard unit for "accuracy". | |
| Jan 2, 2021 at 15:22 | history | edited | shadowtalker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 2, 2021 at 4:04 | history | closed |
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| Jan 1, 2021 at 18:47 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 1, 2021 at 0:44 | comment | added | pearl | I'm only 7 minutes in to an almost 29 hour audio book he says Leah was the mother of Joseph. Genesis says Rachel was the mother of Joseph. How's that for accuracy?? I, personally, am going to pass on this book. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 17:01 | vote | accept | shadowtalker | ||
| Feb 9, 2015 at 21:31 | answer | added | Bruce James | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 9, 2015 at 17:04 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackHistory/status/564832137275514880 | ||
| Feb 8, 2015 at 23:01 | comment | added | Samuel Russell | Another old review, Alan Ryan "Letting them Live" London Review of Books, Vol. 10 No. 14, 4 August 1988, p5-6 as lrb.co.uk/v10/n14/alan-ryan/letting-them-live | |
| Feb 8, 2015 at 20:55 | comment | added | two sheds | I haven't seen any scathing repudiations, so maybe it's aged well. Here's an older review that points out some errors (and thinks the book gets better as it goes on), and here's a similarly old review that faults it for generalizing too much. But what I've found has been generally positive. | |
| Feb 8, 2015 at 20:51 | history | edited | Semaphore |
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| Feb 8, 2015 at 19:29 | history | asked | shadowtalker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |