Skeptical scholars have questioned the historicity of the resurrection story for centuries ; for example, " nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century biblical scholarship dismissed resurrection narratives as late, legendary accounts.

Other arguments against historicity include the silence of Josephus ( who does record several other examples of Herod ’ s willingness to commit such acts to protect his power, noting that he " never stopped avenging and punishing every day those who had chosen to be of the party of his enemies ") and the views that the story is an apologetic device or a constructed fulfilment of prophesy.

Although scholars agree on the historicity of the crucifixion, they differ on the reason and context for it, e. g. both E. P. Sanders and Paula Fredriksen support the historicity of the crucifixion, but contend that Jesus did not foretell his own crucifixion, and that his prediction of the crucifixion is a Christian story.

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 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.

Given that the mythological and allegorical elements of the story defy place and time, the historicity of figures in the cycle is indeterminate.

Several attempts to confirm Madoc's historicity have been made, but historians of early America, notably Samuel Eliot Morison, regard the story as myth.

Pei does not specifically comment on Meng Huo's historicity, but points out elsewhere that Xi writes history not found in earlier records, hence the Yunnan historian Fang Guoyu ( 方国瑜 ) uses Pei's doubts on Xi's unreliability to challenge the story of Meng Huo's seven captures ( though Fang does not go as far as to doubt Meng Huo's existence ).

Many since have taken Dio's anecdote at face value, but there is much in this story that does not add up and many scholars dismiss its historicity altogether.

There are different views on the historicity and origin of the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus.

France defends the historicity of this story.

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.

He has also written on entry of the Philistines into Canaan and on historicity of the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah.

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 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.

John Esposito notes that " Modern Western scholarship has seriously questioned the historicity and authenticity of the hadith ", maintaining that " the bulk of traditions attributed to the Prophet Muhammad were actually written much later.

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

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.

Their historicity started to be questioned in the 1920s by historians like Gu Jiegang, one of the founders of the Doubting Antiquity School in China.

While the historicity of the gospel accounts is questioned to some extent by some critical scholars and non-Christians, the traditional view states the following chronology for his ministry: Temptation, Sermon on the Mount, Appointment of the Twelve, Miracles, Temple Money Changers, Last Supper, Arrest, Trial, Passion, Crucifixion on Good Friday (,), Nisan 14th (,, Gospel of Peter ) or Nisan 15th ( Synoptic Gospels ), ( 7Apr30, 3Apr33, 30Mar36, possible Fri-14-Nisan dates ,-Meier ), entombment by Pharisees Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus of the Sanhedrin, Resurrection by God on Easter Sunday, appearances to Paul of Tarsus (), Simon Peter (), Mary Magdalene (,), and others, Great Commission, Ascension, Second Coming Prophecy to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy such as the Resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment, and establishment of the Kingdom of God and the Messianic Age.

Muslim scholars, and non-Muslim historians have questioned the historicity of the document.

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.

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.

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 ".