Sentences with phrase «multiple biblical sources»
As far as evidence goes, he was written about in multiple biblical sources, which obviously you won't take into account because you believe the bible to be fantasy, but when you think about how all biblical books were written at different times, in different places, by different people, you can at least say there is a decent chance he lived.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
Whereas Wellhausen had challenged the historical reliability of the biblical account on the grounds that it was compiled from multiple sources that originated long after the events reported, his intellectual successors a century later were employing methodologies (such as rhetorical criticism and narrative criticism) that seemed to assume that the biblical writers were not particularly concerned with historical accuracy anyhow.
Through the nineteenth century of our era and into the twentieth biblical scholars have worked productively at the analysis of the Old Testament by means of a documentary hypothesis — the theory (supported by many variants such as these) that multiple documents or sources were employed and combined in the present text.