Bible Quote by Israel Finkelstein

“is now evident that many events of biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described. Some of…

— Israel Finkelstein

“Our task is to decipher the meaning of the historical-theological text in biblical narrative, not to reconstruct the original event.”

— Grant R. Osborne

“Sadly, we have confused biblical literature with history, and turned prophecy into biography.”

— Eli Of Kittim

“Most scholars today agree that the Gospels cannot be regarded strictly as history; not as many may be prepared to admit how little history…

— Kamal Salibi

“To the extent that it remains true to itself, the historical method not only has to investigate the biblical word as a thing of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“It has become increasingly necessary to abandon the use of biblical historiography as a viable source for our own historical writing .. We must…

— Frank Charles Thompson

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

— Elie Wiesel

“It’s easy for our young people to think of the biblical stories as taking place long, long ago and far, far away, and thus…

— Sarah Arthur

“It is already apparent that the ‘minimalist’ view of the Bible as wholly fictitious and unhooked from historical reality, may be as much of…

— Simon Schama

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

— Thomas Carlyle