Keith Jenkins

Rethinking history with Keith Jenkins (Pt. 3).

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Brian LePort

If you’ve haven’t had an opportunity to read Part 1 and Part 2 of my interaction with Keith Jenkins’ Re-thinking History I recommend reading those post first. In the third and final chapter of this book titled “Doing history in the post-modern world” Jenkins presents his logic for still doing historical work, even though he has [...]

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Rethinking history with Keith Jenkins (Pt. 2).

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Brian LePort

In my previous engagement with Keith Jenkins’ Rethinking History (see part 1) I examine his assault on the idea that history = the past, that history is singular, and that history can be objectively understood. Today I ponder his arguments in Chapter Two: “On some questions and some answers”. These are the seven questions he [...]

Categories: Historical Jesus, Historical Studies, Historiography, Keith Jenkins | 2 Comments

Rethinking history with Keith Jenkins (Pt. 1).

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Brian LePort

Recently I finished Keith Jenkins’ book Re-Thinking History (Routledge, 1991). Jenkins is a professor of history at the University of Chichester who is known for his advocating of a postmodern historiography. What characterizes a “postmodern” historiography? Well, oddly enough this statement by the philosopher Voltaire works quite well:  ”There is no history, only fictions of varying [...]

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