the historical method
1Historical method — The historical method comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write history. The question of the nature, and indeed the possibility, of sound historical method is… …
2historical method — noun : a technique of presenting information (as in teaching or criticism) in which a topic is considered in terms of its earliest phases and followed in an historical course through its subsequent evolution and development * * * the process of… …
3historical method — /hɪsˌtɒrɪkəl ˈmɛθəd/ (say his.torikuhl methuhd) noun the development of general principles by the study of the historical facts …
4historical method — the process of establishing general facts and principles through attention to chronology and to the evolution or historical course of what is being studied. [1835 45] * * * …
5historical method — noun The techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write history …
6Historical Criticism — • The art of distinguishing the true from the false concerning facts of the past Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Historical Criticism Historical Criticism …
7Oral tradition and the historical Jesus — Sermon on the Mount Jesus (like other rabbis) would have expounded and debated the Torah orally, though some may have made private notes (megillot setarim) The Oral Tradition, is the cultural material and traditions transmitted orally from one… …
8historical — [his tôr′i kəl, histär′i kəl] adj. [< L historicus + AL] 1. of or concerned with history as a science [the historical method] 2. providing evidence for a fact of history; serving as a source of history [a historical document] 3. based on or… …
9The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail — Infobox Book name = The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail title orig = translator = image caption = Cover of the 2005 illustrated hardcover edition author = Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln illustrator = cover artist = country = UK… …
10historical school — noun a school of 19th century German economists and legal philosophers who tried to explain modern economic systems in evolutionary or historical terms • Hypernyms: ↑school * * * noun 1. : a school of economics developed in Germany in the middle… …
