Historicity of Bible

[PearlSeeker]

Some of them are
1 Esdras
2 Esdras
Tobit
Judith
The rest of Esther
The Wisdom of Solomon
Ecclesiasticus
Baruch with the epistle Jeremiah
The Songs of the 3 Holy children
The history of Susana
bel and the dragon
The prayer for Manasses
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees

However I have a bible that includes the Books of the Apocrypha
The Ethiopian and Coptic bibles also have a different set of Books included in their bible canons.
We know there were other texts rejected in the earlies bibles because some were mentioned in other documents.
And they hardly set up a Synod to do nothing. they were selective what they included.
As was the catholic Cull in the 4th and 5th centuries.

The Bible canon has changed over time.
most of the changes are well documented if you care to look into it further.
You will find that all the Gnostic Gospels and writings have been excluded such as the Gospel of Mary and the Gospel of Thomas.

There is more stuff excluded that ever found its way into the Bible.

These books were excluded from Hebrew canon (Tanakh) but they were part of Christian canon.

Deuterocanonical books - Wikipedia

 

[alypius]

I was asking about parts that are regarded as historical: lives of patriarchs and so on...

How do we know whether those parts regarded as historical are actually historical?

 

[PearlSeeker]

How do we know whether those parts regarded as historical are actually historical?

Evaluation

How Historians Determine the Historicity of People and Events – davidmiano.net