History Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Grant R. Osborne

“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

“I am in complete alignment with my thinking with this statement by F. F. Bruce: 'Whether our approach is theological or historical, it does…

— R. Alan Woods

“biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described. Some of the most famous events in the Bible…

— Israel Finkelstein

“history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains”

— Anonymous

“Ours is a historical faith, and to uproot the Bible from its historical contexts is self-contradictory.”

— Peter Enns

“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

“In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is 'massive' and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in fact reliable."…

— R. Alan Woods

“Though the evidence from Scripture for editing and compiling is obvious and irrefutable, our failure to deal with it bit by bit in the…

— Alden Thompson

“It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in…

— Samuel Butler

“Archaeological research done in Bible lands has amazingly confirmed the reliability and historicity of the Scriptures in so many areas. Every part of the…

— Steve Kumar

“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