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  • the quality of being part of recorded history
    Recorded history
    Recorded history can be defined as human history that has been written down or recorded by the use of language. It starts in the 4th millennium BC, with the invention of writing. The period before this is known as prehistory.Recorded history begins with the accounts of the ancient world by...

    , as opposed to prehistory
    Prehistory
    Prehistory is a term used to describe the period before recorded history. Paul Tournal originally coined the term Pré-historique in describing the finds he had made in the caves of southern France...

  • the quality of being part of history
    History
    History is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it often attempts to investigate objectively the patterns...

     as opposed to being ahistorical myth or legend
    Legend
    A legend is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude...
    • Historicity of the Iliad
      Historicity of the Iliad
      The extent of the historical basis of the Iliad has been debated for some time. Educated Greeks of the fifth century continued to accept the truth of human events depicted in the Iliad, even as philosophical scepticism was undermining faith in divine intervention in human affairs...

    • Historicity (Bible Studies)
      • Historicity of Jesus
        Historicity of Jesus
        The historicity of Jesus concerns the historical authenticity of the existence of Jesus of Nazareth. Scholars often draw a distinction between Jesus as reconstructed through historical methods and the Christ of faith as understood through theological tradition...

      • Historicism (Christian eschatology)
        Historicism (Christian eschatology)
        Historicism is a school of interpretation which treats the eschatological prophecies of Daniel and Revelation as finding literal earthly fulfillment through the history of the church age and especially in relation to the struggle between the true church and apostasy...

        , a specific brand of Biblical literalism
        Biblical literalism
        Biblical literalism is the interpretation or translation of the explicit and primary sense of words in the Bible. A literal, Biblical interpretation is associated with the fundamentalist and evangelical hermeneutical approach to Scripture, and is used by most conservative Christians today...

    • Historicity of Muhammad
      Historicity of Muhammad
      The earliest source of information for the life of Muhammad is the Qur'an, although this doesn't give much information. Next in importance are the historical works by writers of third and fourth century of the Muslim era...

  • Historicity (philosophy)
    Historicity (philosophy)
    Historicity in philosophy is the underlying concept of history, or the intersection of teleology temporality and historiography...

    , a word for how history is, to allow discussion as to how its form is interpreted (linear, circular, repetitive etc).