Historicity of the Bible

branch of literary criticism that investigates the origins of ancient text (usually the Bible)

debate whether Jesus was a historical figure

opinion that biblical Jesus was purely fictional

relationship between historic and Biblical events

prophecy written after the author already had information about the events being "foretold", so as to appear that the prophecy had taken place before the event, when in fact it was written after the events supposedly predicted

New Testament gospels as historical document

book by Athanasius Kircher