Probably better look up the definition of History.
@Wildswanderer is correct about the Bible being history. Look at the names of the books Acts, Chronicles, all through the Bible the words are they not written in the records, all through Kings etc.
his·to·ry
(hĭs′tə-rē)
n. pl. his·to·ries
1.
a. A chronological record of events, as of the life or development of a people or institution, often including an explanation of or commentary on those events: a history of the Vikings.
Definition of history
1:
TALE,
STORY
2a: a chronological record of significant events (such as those affecting a nation or institution) often including an explanation of their causesa history of Japan
Historians and biblical archaeologists completely disagree, on everything. You have bought into apologetics and assumptions. The poster who said "stories" was spot on with the consensus of all scholarship.
NOVA | The Bible's Buried Secrets | Archeology of the Hebrew Bible | PBS
William Dever, Professor Emeritus of the University of Arizona, has investigated the archeology of the ancient Near East for more than 30 years and authored almost as many books on the subject.
"The truth of the matter today is that archeology raises more questions about the historicity of the Hebrew Bible and even the New Testament than it provides answers, and that's very disturbing to some people."
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We want to make the Bible history. Many people think it has to be history or nothing. But there is no word for history in the Hebrew Bible. In other words, what did the biblical writers think they were doing? Writing objective history? No. That's a modern discipline. They were telling
stories. They wanted you to know what these purported events mean.
"" We have no direct archeological evidence. "Moses" is an Egyptian name. Some of the other names in the narratives are Egyptian, and there are genuine Egyptian elements. But no one has found a text or an artifact in Egypt itself or even in the Sinai that has any direct connection. That doesn't mean it didn't happen. But I think it does mean what happened was rather more modest. And the biblical writers have enlarged the story."
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No Egyptian text mentions the Israelites except the famous inscription of Merneptah dated to about 1206 B.C.E. But those Israelites were in Canaan; they are not in Egypt, and nothing is said about them escaping from Egypt."
"So gradually the old conquest model [based on the accounts of Joshua's conquests in the Bible] began to lose favor amongst scholars. Many scholars now think that most of the early Israelites were originally Canaanites, displaced Canaanites, displaced from the lowlands, from the river valleys, displaced geographically and then displaced ideologically."
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Q: If the Bible's story of Joshua's conquest isn't entirely historic, what is its meaning?
Dever: Why was it told? Well, it was told because there were probably armed conflicts here and there, and these become a part of the story glorifying the career of Joshua, commander in chief of the Israelite forces. I suspect that there is a historical kernel, and there are a few sites that may well have been destroyed by these Israelites, such as Hazor in Galilee, or perhaps a site or two in the south."
Q: The Bible describes it as a glorious kingdom stretching from Egypt to Mesopotamia. Does archeology back up these descriptions?
Dever: The stories of Solomon are larger than life. According to the stories, Solomon imported 100,000 workers from what is now Lebanon. Well, the whole population of Israel probably wasn't 100,000 in the 10th century. Everything Solomon touched turned to gold. In the minds of the biblical writers, of course, David and Solomon are ideal kings chosen by Yahweh. So they glorify them.
Now, archeology can't either prove or disprove the stories. But I think most archeologists today would argue that the United Monarchy was not much more than a kind of hill-country chiefdom. It was very small-scale.
Q: One of the astonishing things is your discovery of Yahweh's connection to Asherah. Tell us about that.
Dever: In 1968, I discovered an inscription in a cemetery west of Hebron, in the hill country, at the site of Khirbet el-Qôm, a Hebrew inscription of the 8th century B.C.E. It gives the name of the deceased, and it says "blessed may he be by Yahweh"—that's good biblical Hebrew—but it says "by Yahweh and his Asherah."
Asherah is the name of the old Canaanite Mother Goddess, the consort of El, the principal deity of the Canaanite pantheon. So why is a Hebrew inscription mentioning Yahweh in connection with the Canaanite Mother Goddess? Well, in popular religion they were a pair.
"Generally, Moses is seen as a
legendary figure, whilst retaining the possibility that Moses or a Moses-like figure existed in the 13th century BCE"
For instance, according to
William G. Dever, the modern scholarly consensus is that the biblical person of Moses is largely mythical while also holding that "a Moses-like figure may have existed somewhere in the southern
Transjordan in the mid-late 13th century B.C
"r J. Van Seters concluded that "the quest for the historical Moses is a futile exercise. He now belongs only to legend"
The
Genesis creation narrative is the
creation myth[........It expounds themes parallel to those in
Mesopotamian mythology,
Comparative mythology provides historical and cross-cultural perspectives for
Jewish mythology. Both sources behind the Genesis creation narrative borrowed themes from
Mesopotamian mythology,
[....
Genesis 2 has close parallels with a second Mesopotamian myth, the
Atra-Hasis epic – parallels that in fact extend throughout
Genesis 2–11, from the Creation to the
Flood and its aftermat
Christian mythology - Wikipedia -
Christian mythology is the body of
myths associated with
Christianity. The term encompasses a broad variety of
legends and
narratives, especially those considered sacred narratives. Mythological
themes and elements occur throughout Christian literature, including recurring myths such as ascending to a mountain, the
axis mundi, myths of combat,
descent into the Underworld, accounts of a
dying-and-rising god, a
flood myth, stories about the founding of a tribe or city, and myths about great
heroes (or
saints) of the past,
paradises, and
self-sacrifice.
