Wednesday, February 17, 2016

THREE TYPES OF HISTORY

To those who are interested in history and philosophy; particularly history, it's imperative to know that there are three types of history. 

1. Theological or biblical history
2. Scaligerian or mainstream history
3. New "chronology" history

Theological history is basically history according to the "holy" books. This is the type of history that's taught in seminary and Islamic schools, and the only type of history that most religious people accept to be true.

Scaligerian history or mainstream history is nothing but history according to the Western narratives. This is the type of history that's taught in most colleges around the world; more specifically, in the West.

New "chronology" history is history that's formulated based on statistical analysis of historical texts and epochs. This is perhaps the closet history to real history.

It suffices to say that nobody really knows what happened in antiquity, for the ancients didn't write their own history. However, using archeological, epigraphic, and numismatic evidentiary facts, one can attempt to reconstruct what happened in antiquity.

So, from all available evidentiary facts, theological history (I.e. Judeo-Christian and Islamic histories) can be dismissed as being fictitious and a work of myth. Having said that, Scaligerian or mainstream history is perhaps just as fictitious as the theological history, for they're both formulated by the same Jesuits scholars out of the Vatican. Unbeknownst to many out there, mainstream history was formulated and developed based on theological or biblical chronology.

All in all, I implore every student of history and philosophy to be mindful of what he or she espouses as true history.

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