In this regard, he cites the case of Saul, where Saul runs into a company of prophets playing a tabret, a pipe, and a harp. ... He claims that the first four books by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John don't even provide a history of Christ, but only detached anecdotes of him. It appears from these books, that the whole time of his being a preacher was not more than eighteen months; and it was only during this short time that those men became acquainted with him. ... In an interesting twist on Paine's argument utilizing Aristotle's ideal on poetics, Paine claims that the imagery in t...

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In fact, Dever (1992) maintains that the Old Testament cannot be proved historically correct and only some of the books of the Bible can be used to show any pertinent historical information. ... McKenzie (2005) cites the work of Van Seters (1983) who made a differentiation between history and historiography. ...

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