Jewish historiography ceased after the Babylonian return despite biblical example

Evidence

The history of the Jews can rightly be described as a long and glorious history, but it would be difficult to justify the use of either adjective for Jewish historiography. Short and inglorious might perhaps be a more appro­ priate description. It had a very promising beginning. The historical books of the Hebrew Bible set a magnificent example of historiography at its best—frank, honest, self-critical, showing even the greatest national and religious heroes with all their faults and all their sins and no attempt at concealment. In this, the historical books of the Hebrew Bible served as a model for much of early Chris­ tian historiography and to a lesser extent for Muslim historiography—but not, oddly enough, for Jewish historiography, which, within the community, virtually came to an end some time after the return from Babylon and did not resume until comparatively modern times. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 336

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why exactly did Jewish historiography not resume until modern times — what suppressed it for two millennia?
• XREF: Connects to the Said-adjacent cluster on how diasporic Jewish history became legible to Western Christian frameworks rather than self-written.