Endnote 2 – The Hebrew Bible Contains the Oldest Surviving History

See J. Nunes Careira, “Formen des Geschichtdenkens in altorientalischer und altestamentlicher Geschichtschreibung,” Biblische Zeitschrift 31 (1987), pp. 38–57. The article is instructive because the author assumes the existence of a Mesopotamian historiography and points out its poverty instance by instance.