The story of Barabbas has special social significances, because it has historically been used to lay the blame for the crucifixion of Jesus on the Jews, and to justify anti-Semitism — an interpretation, known as Jewish deicide, dismissed by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2011 book, in which he also questions the historicity of the passage in Matthew.

For the interpretation of biblical archaeology in relation to biblical historicity, see The Bible and history, and List of artifacts significant to the Bible.

Moderate and liberal Christians generally accept the historicity and reliability of scripture in varying degrees, but differ primarily on interpretation of particular passages — from literal meanings to metaphorical intent in some regard.

Our endeavor to capture even a faint sense of how strenuous was the fight is muffled by our indifference to the very issue which in the Boston of 1848 seemed to be the central hope of its Christian survival, that of the literal, factual historicity of the miracles as reported in the Four Gospels.

A key contested issue is the historicity of Luke's depiction of Paul.

Jacob Hoschander has argued that evidence of the historicity of Haman and his father Hamedatha is seen in Omanus and Anadatus mentioned by Strabo as being honoured with Anahita in the city of Zela.

Although these annals provide most of what is known about Ceawlin, the historicity of many of the entries is uncertain.

The historicity of this story is questioned by most scholars, although John Robert Moore later said that " no man in England but Defoe ever stood in the pillory and later rose to eminence among his fellow men ".

The precise nature of these invasions is not fully understood, the historical account being composed either hundreds of years after the events or not primarily concerned with historicity at all.

The question of the historicity of Homer the individual is known as the " Homeric question "; there is no reliable biographical information handed down from classical antiquity.

Imhotep's historicity is confirmed by two contemporary inscriptions made during his lifetime on the base or pedestal of one of Djoser's statues ( Cairo JE 49889 ) and also by a graffito on the enclosure wall surrounding Sekhemkhet's unfinished step-pyramid.

While this passage is the only reference to John the Baptist outside the New Testament, it is widely seen by most scholars as confirming the historicity of the baptisms that John performed.

There is no mention of a family relationship between John and Jesus in the other Gospels, and the scholar Raymond E. Brown has described it as " of dubious historicity ".

The absolute definition of morality in wuxia is understandably a reaction to the real world where it is not quite so clear what or who is purely good or otherwise, consider the context and the historicity of Hong Kong at the time of Louis Cha's works.

While all scholars acknowledge that there is a large mythological part of the narrative some maintain that by using a critical comparative method some level of historicity can be salvaged from the sources, whereas others maintain that continued analysis of the narratives as sources of actual history is futile and hinders access to actual knowledge of the culture of Tula, Hidalgo.

Besides the debate over the historicity of the Qing-era destruction, it is currently unknown whether there was a true southern temple, with several locations in Fujian given as the location for the monastery.

The historicity of the Trojan War is still subject to debate.

* Possible date at which Fergus Mór begins his reign – the historicity of Mór is doubtful.

While all scholars acknowledge that there is a large mythological part of the narrative some maintain that by using a critical comparative method some level of historicity can be salvaged from the sources, whereas others maintain that continued analysis of the narratives as sources of actual history is futile and hinders access to actual knowledge of the culture of Tula, Hidalgo.

" there is no historicity in this tale ", also according to Eunice Burr Stebbins, and Arion and the dolphins is given as an example of " a folkloristic motif especially associated with Apollo " by Irad Malkin > Yet there are many more or less reliable historical accounts from many periods of people being saved by dolphins.

Whenever the book was written and whatever the historicity of the events recounted in it, clearly by the time it was written the term " Yehudim " ( יהודים-Jews ) already gained a meaning quite close to what it means up to the present — i. e. an ethnic-religious group, scattered in many countries, organised in autonomous communities and a target of hatred.

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.

Since William Muir the historicity of this episode has been largely accepted by orientalists.

The problems with the historicity of Juan Diego was recognized as early as 1883 by Joaquín García Icazbalceta historian and the biographer of Archbishop Juan de Zumárraga, in private letter to the Mexican Bishop Icazbalceta concluded that there was no historical basis for the character of Juan Diego.

Fundamentalism is a movement, rather than a denomination or a systematic theology, which gained ascendance after the release of a ten-volume set of essays, apologetic and polemic, written by many well-known conservative Protestant theologians to defend what they saw as Protestant orthodoxy — covering a wide range of topics, from defenses of the Divinity of Jesus Christ, his Virgin Birth, of the historicity of Biblical narratives, Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, and of Biblical inerrancy against the prevalent higher-critical theories of the day, to the falsity of theological systems such as Christian Science, " Millennial Dawnism ", Mormonism, to the errors of " Romanism "— over the course of 1910-1915, called The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth, from which the movement receives its eponymous name.

The sources for Pilate's life are the four canonical gospels, Philo of Alexandria, Josephus, a brief mention by Tacitus, and an inscription known as the Pilate Stone, which confirms his historicity and establishes his title as prefect.

Albright, which sought to validate the historicity of the events narrated in the Bible through the ancient texts and material remains of the Near East, has little in common with the view of history described by archaeologist William Dever.

In federal court pleadings in the United States, for example, the New York City, school system defended its ban on nativity scenes by claiming the historicity of the birth of Jesus was not actual fact.

Scholars have questioned the historicity of legendary kings of the ancient periods given by Sima Qian.

In 1863 he was made vicar of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, having attracted attention by his vehement sermons against Essays and Reviews, a series of messages on biblical inspiration in which he defended against the findings of textual criticism and higher criticism the historicity and Mosaic authorship of Genesis, and Biblical inerrancy in general: " Either, with the best and wisest of all ages, you must believe the whole of Holy Scripture ; or, with the narrow-minded infidel, you must disbelieve the whole.

Although, the narrative of the Devichandragupta is not supported by any contemporary epigraphical evidence, the historicity of Rama Gupta is proved by his Durjanpur inscriptions on three Jaina images, where he is mentioned as the Maharajadhiraja.

While the historicity of William Tell and specific events are questioned by modern historians, the cantons around Lake Lucerne and other nearby lakes had a long history of alliances.

Today, the Community of Christ generally refers to the First Vision as the " grove experience " and takes a flexible view about its historicity, emphasizing " the healing presence of God and the forgiving mercy of Christ " felt by Joseph Smith.

The historicity of the Sacred Band was challenged in 2002 by the classical scholar David D. Leitao who believes that it " rests on the most precarious of foundations ".

( There is no historicity to the assertion of Diodorus Siculus that this was the model for the labyrinth of Crete that Greeks imagined housed the Minotaur ,) The demolition of the " labyrinth " may date in part to the reign of Ptolemy II, under whom the Pharaonic city of Shedyt ( Greek Crocodilopolis, the modern Medinet el-Fayum ) was renamed to honour his sister-wife Arsinoë ; a massive Ptolemaic building program at Arsinoe has been suggested as the ultimate destination of Middle Kingdom limestone columns and blocks removed from Hawara, and now lost.

One of the arguments in favor of the historicity of the Baptism of Jesus by John is that it is a story which the early Christian Church would have never wanted to invent, typically referred to as the criterion of embarrassment in historical analysis.

The Moravian Church is reputed to have received the Apostolic Succession through the Waldensian Church, but the historicity of this is disputed.

This focus on the resurrection as the key to Christ's identity has led Pannenberg to defend its historicity, stressing the experience of the risen Christ in the history of the early Church rather than the empty tomb.

Humanistic Mormonism is a movement of Free Thinkers, Cultural Mormons, Disfellowshipped or Independents people related to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other Latter Day Saint groups that emphasize Mormon culture and history, but do not demand belief in a supernatural god, or the historicity of the Bible or the Book of Mormon.

One of the arguments in favor of the historicity of the Baptism of Jesus by John is that it is a story which the early Christian Church would have never wanted to invent, typically referred to as the criterion of embarrassment in historical analysis.

Most scholars reject the historicity of the later legends of King Arthur, which seem to be set in this period, but some such as John Morris see it as evidence behind which may lie a plausible grain of truth.

The question of the historicity of the Exodus ( specifically, the Pharaoh of the Exodus, identification of which would connect the biblical narrative to Egyptological chronology ) has long been debated, without conclusive result.

At the other end of the spectrum are the ethnic reconstructionist traditions, which focus on historicity, folklore, and the revival of culturally-specific rites and beliefs.

Those scholars who acknowledged the historicity of the incident apparently had a different method for the assessment of reports than that which has become standard Islamic methodology.

" This argument resembles the criterion of embarrassment, an analytical tool used in assessing the historicity of Biblical accounts of Jesus, which holds that material that would seem to be " embarrassing " to scriptural figures such as Jesus but is nevertheless included in the canon is likely to be true.

Some have believed that these Indian sources derived their information from a Sanskrit translation of Philostratus ’ work ( which would have been a most uncommon and amazing occurrence ), or even considered the possibility that it was really an independent confirmation of the historicity of the journey to India.

He particularly focuses on Plutarch's use of distancing language like " as they say " and " some say " () which implies that Plutarch was himself unwilling to vouch for the historicity of the Sacred Band.

Jerome advanced some doubt regarding the historicity and inspiration of those books which were absent in the Palestinian Canon due to the principle Veritas Hebraica ; yet Pope Gelasius I obliged Jerome to obey the canons of the so called third Council of Carthage, held in Africa under St. Augustine of Hippo in 397, which declared the canonicity of the Deuterocanon.

The most prominent is the naturalist school, which seeks to imitate the complexity and historicity of natural languages.

If et-Tell is indeed Ai, this poses a problem for defenders of the literal historicity of the Biblical accounts concerning the origin of ancient Israel ; the reason for this is that traditional dating schemes place the Exodus from Egypt in 1440 BC and Joshua's conquest of Canaan around 1400 BC, a time at which the archaeological evidence shows Ai to have been completely unoccupied, as it had been for almost 1000 years.

Other Young Hegelians had other qualms about Hegel ’ s Philosophy: David Strauss did not accept Hegel ’ s claims of Christian historicity renouncing any historical basis to Christianity in favour of its demythization, claiming that the stories found in the Bible should be understood as myths " constructed not by individuals but by the earliest Christian communities in response to the teaching of Christ and the Messianic tradition which they had inherited from the Old Testament.

By the middle of 19th century, the historical critical approach to biblical analysis which had started over a century earlier, and focused on determining the historicity of gospel episodes, had taken away some of the emphasis on spreading Lectio divina outside monastic communities.