The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.
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The New Testament is not a historical document.
If we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, then we shouldn't be recognizing it only as a book of historical and economic significance.
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
The Bible is not an antiquated text. The scriptures are the text that will lead us into the future.
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
History is only written from what remains.
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.
The Bible is a history book.