The historical reliability of John is debated, particularly by secular scholarship.

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.

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.

These speeches, which are given in full, have been the source of debates over the historical accuracy of Acts.

It is believed that authority and the grace of God is directly passed down to Orthodox bishops and clergy through the laying on of hands — a practice started by the apostles, and that this unbroken historical and physical link is an essential element of the true church ( Acts 8: 17, 1 Tim 4: 14, Heb 6: 2 ).

Robert M. Grant has noted that although Luke saw himself within the historical tradition, his work contains a number of statistical improbabilities such as the sizable crowd addressed by Peter in Acts 4: 4.

This confusion of historical detail was compounded by the common acceptance of Pseudo-Dionysius's writings as the authentic work of the Biblical Dionysius of Acts 17: 34.

The main source for historical information about Paul's life is the material found in several of his epistles and the Book of Acts.

Recently, Berlin pastor Hermann Detering ( 1995 ) has made the case that the veiled anti-Pauline stance of the Pseudo-Clementines has historical roots, that the Acts 8 encounter between Simon the magician and Peter is itself based on the conflict between Peter and Paul, though his view has not found support among scholars.

Holy Mother Church has firmly and with absolute constancy held, and continues to hold, that the four Gospels just named, whose historical character the Church unhesitatingly asserts, faithfully hand on what Jesus Christ, while living among men, really did and taught for their eternal salvation until the day He was taken up into heaven ( see Acts 1: 1 ).

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Most historians nowadays regard Acts and Deeds as a versified historical novel, written at a time of strong anti-English sentiment in Scotland.

These battles are sometimes referenced as historical events by accounts which do not cross-check the stories in Acts and Deeds against another source.

Doherty denies any historical value of the Acts of the Apostles, and refers to works by John Knox, Joseph B. Tyson, J. C. O ' Neill, Burton L. Mack and Richard Pervo in dating Acts into the 2nd century and regarding it as largely based on legend.

It is also often used to refer to ' British ' in historical and other contexts after the Acts of Union 1707, for example such as in the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, where in later years agreement was between the British government and the Dutch, not an English government.

Benedict Arnold: A Drama of the American Revolution in Five Acts ( 2005 ) by Robert Zubrin similarly implies that André was a lover of General Henry Clinton, however, this was more of an advertising gimmick than from any sense of historical accuracy.

There are passing references to the historical Babylon of the Jewish past in Matthew 1: 11, 12, 17 and in Acts 7: 43, but these are literary.

According to her, in the four Canonical Gospels, Acts and Revelation, historical facts have been encoded into the text, that is, they were written ( and may be revealed ) by applying the method, forgotten for twenty centuries.

The major primary source for the " Apostolic Age " is the Acts of the Apostles, but its historical accuracy is questioned by some.

The lost Acts of Saturninus were employed as historical sources by the chronicler Gregory of Tours.

References to this can be found in Scottish historical works dated from 1424 ( Scottish Language Bible, Acts II, 6: 1 ) and 1574 ( Reg.

Some Acts of Infamy are references to historical events, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, while others are comical, such as a mission in which the player must destroy Nashville, Tennessee in an effort to rid the world of country music, which is described as an act of humanitarianism.

In later times a legend sprang up concerning her, connected with the Acts of the martyrdom of Saints John and Paul and has no historical claim to belief.