re: #286 rhymeswithright

Don’t forget, though, that the Bible is legitimately viewed as a historical work — though one that has to be contextualized among other evidence. Modern archaeology confirms much of what is found in the Bible (though certainly not all), and therefore it is not only appropriate, but also essential, to use the Bible as one historical resource among many.

Nonsense. The Bible is a religious book; there are almost no historians who view it as a valid work of history. Some of the events in the Bible may have occurred as described, but almost none of them are entirely accurate, and ALL of them must be verified by outside sources, because the authorship of most of it is unclear.

Only fundamentalists consider the Bible a valid work of history.