Jews deliberately rejected the writing of their own history

Evidence

The lack of Jewish historiography for this long period must be seen not as a failure but as a rejection. It is not that they failed to produce historians; it is that they did not want historians and they did not want history. The books of Maccabees were rejected from the canon and survive only in translation. Josephus, one of the greatest historians of antiquity, was a renegade Jew writing in a foreign language for a foreign audience. Maimonides even went so far as to denounce the study of history as of no moral or intellectual value and a waste of time. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 337 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Jewish communities deliberately rejected historiography for over a millennium; Jews rejected historiography for centuries as a conscious refusal, not incapacity — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 337

Broader Connections

• Jewish communities deliberately rejected historiography for over a millennium #corroborates (0.95)
• Jews rejected historiography for centuries as a conscious refusal, not incapacity #corroborates (0.95) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 337