While the historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles is disputed by critics, the Acts of the Apostles is the major primary source of information for this period.

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Nevetheless, it appears that many of them derive their facts from literal readings of their objects ' poems, which leaves their historical reliability in doubt.

The satirist Lucian thought so little of Ctesias ' historical reliability that in his satirical True Story he places Ctesias on the island where the evil were punished.

Scholars may utilize one of several critical tools in biblical scholarship, the criterion of multiple attestation, to help build cases for historical reliability of the sayings of Jesus.

The historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles, the primary source for the Apostolic Age, is a major issue for biblical scholars and historians of Early Christianity.

In the true sense of the word, according to the axioms established above for the reliability of historical tradition, there can be only assertion of real prophecy when the divine revelations apply to important public matters ; while those revelations which pertain to less important matters, or even to the personal affairs of a single individual, can not be classed under this head ( ib.

Writing of the " unusual excitement on the subject of religion " described in the First Vision story canonized by the LDS Church, Milton V. Backman, associate professor of history and religion at Brigham Young University, said that although " the tools of the historian " could neither verify nor challenge the First Vision, " records of the past can be examined to determine the reliability of Joseph's description regarding the historical setting.

However, given the nature of the text as satire, Lucian may have embellished the stories he heard and his account can not have a high degree of historical reliability.

Concerning this creed, Campenhausen wrote, " This account meets all the demands of historical reliability that could possibly be made of such a text ," whilst A. M. Hunter said, " The passage therefore preserves uniquely early and verifiable testimony.

It meets every reasonable demand of historical reliability.

Scholars have varying degrees of certainty about the historical reliability of the accounts in the gospels, and the only two events whose historicity is the subject of almost universal agreement among scholars are the baptism and crucifixion of Jesus.

The Tradiciones peruanas do not meet formal historical standards of accuracy or reliability sufficiently to be considered " history ," but Palma never intended them to be read as " pure " history.

Some scholars criticized Bultmann and other critics for excessive skepticism regarding the historical reliability of the gospel narratives.

Such findings cast doubt on the reliability of the historical record when applied to archaeological sites in general and follow a processualist approach stressing the benefits of scientific analysis.

Like currency, the value of this privilege ( for the powerful ) depends on the reliability of " white skin " ( or as physical anthropologists would deem this construct, the phenotype of historical North Atlantic Europeans ) as a marker for social consent.

He argues that the book is ‘ a therapeutic history for white ( Anglo-Saxon ) Australians that distorts and distracts ’ and that in denying the reliability of historical evidence of racialized groups, Windschuttle employs a tactic used by historians to discredit historical accounts that do not fit with their presentist morality .’

The quality ( accuracy and reliability ) of data published in the Soviet Union and used in historical research is another issue raised by various Sovietologists.

In his books, such as On the Reliability of the Old Testament ( 2003 ), Kitchen argues that the historical evidence supports the reliability of biblical accounts.

::" Any serious attempt to sort out the relative historical reliability of the individual supplications found in all the versions of the Sahifa on the basis of modern critical scholarship would be an undertaking of major proportions.

The reliability and usefulness of the Annals as a historical source has sometimes been questioned by presentists on the grounds that they were limited to accounts of the births, deaths and activities of the Gaelic nobility of Ireland and often ignore wider social trends or events.

Berg questions the historical reliability of the three stone inscriptions themselves.

In October 2010, John Graham-Cumming started a campaign to raise funds by " public subscription " to enable serious historical and academic study of Babbage's plans, with a view to then build and test a fully working virtual design which will then in turn enable construction of the physical Analytical Engine.

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The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

The first holder of the title was John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), the noted English general, and indeed an unqualified reference to the Duke of Marlborough in a historical text will almost certainly refer to him.

A historical note on the Reverend John Clinch, first Canadian vaccinator.

It is generally believed that Shakespeare originally named Falstaff " John Oldcastle ", and that Lord Cobham, a descendant of the historical John Oldcastle, complained, forcing Shakespeare to change the name.

The historical John Fastolf fought at the Battle of Patay against Joan of Arc, which the English lost.

Following on from " the higher criticism " of the 19th century, Adolf von Harnack and Raymond E. Brown have questioned the gospel of John as a reliable source of information about the historical Jesus.

The opening verse of John is translated as " the Word was with God and the Word was God " in all orthodox and historical Bibles.

Critical scholarship in the 19th century distinguished between the " biographical " approach of the synoptics and the " theological " approach of John, and began to disregard John as a historical source.

According to the majority viewpoint for most of the 20th century, Jesus ' teaching in John is largely irreconcilable with that found in the Synoptics, and scholars consider the Synoptics to be more accurate representations of the teaching of the historical Jesus.

J. D. G. Dunn comments on historical Jesus scholarship, " Few scholars would regard John as a source for information regarding Jesus ' life and ministry in any degree comparable to the synoptics.

" Sanders points out that the author would regard the gospel as theologically true as revealed spiritually even if its content is not historically accurate and argues that even historically plausible elements in John can hardly be taken as historical evidence, as they may well represent the author's intuition rather than historical recollection.

The scholars of the Jesus Seminar identify the historical inferiority of John as foundational to their work.

While a large number of 20th century biblical critics argue that the teaching found in John does not go back to the historical Jesus, they usually agree that gospel is not entirely without historical value.

Recent evidences such as the pool and a turn away from the vestiges of positivism as evidenced by the growing number of books addressing the historicity of John reveal that the final word has not been said on how much of the historical Jesus inhabits John's gospel.

Some scholars today believe that parts of John represent an independent historical tradition from the synoptics, while other parts represent later traditions.

It is widely believed by historians that Federalist newspaper editors Nathan Hale, Benjamin and John Russell were the instigators, but the historical record gives no definitive evidence as to who created or uttered the word for the first time.

John Bellamy Foster asserts that historical materialism is important in explaining history from a scientific perspective, by following the scientific method, as opposed to belief-system theories like Creationism and Intelligent Design, which do not base their beliefs on verifiable facts and hypotheses.

Though he later described his presidency as the unhappiest time of his life, scholars rate John Quincy Adams in the second quartile in the majority of historical presidential rankings.