Historicity of the Bible
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The historicity of the Bible is the question of its "acceptability as history," in the phrase of Thomas L. Thompson, a scholar who has written widely on this topic as it relates to the Old Testament.
This can be extended to the question of the Christian New Testament as an accurate record of the historical Jesus and the Apostolic Age.
Many fields of study compare the Bible and history, ranging from archeology and astronomy to linguistics and comparative literature. Scholars also examine the historical context of Bible passages, the importance ascribed to events by the authors, and the contrast between the descriptions of these events and historical evidence.
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See also
- Abraham#Historicity and origins
- Authorship of the Bible
- Biblical archaeology school
- Biblical criticism
- Biblical inerrancy
- Biblical literalism
- Book of Daniel#Composition
- Book of Esther#Historicity
- Book of Joshua#Genre (historicity)
- Rudolf Bultmann
- Census of Quirinius
- Chronology of Jesus
- Crucifixion darkness
- Dating the Bible
- David#Historicity
- Development of the New Testament canon
- Documentary hypothesis
- The Exodus#Historicity
- Ezra#Academic view
- Flood geology
- Historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles
- Historicity of Jesus
- Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy)#History
- List of artifacts in biblical archaeology
- Massacre of the Innocents#Historicity
- Moses#Historicity
- Sanhedrin trial of Jesus
- Science and the Bible
- Theudas
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