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“What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the stories which in any ancient narrative would have to arouse the historian's suspicion.”

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Book:Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity

Source: Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity

“For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.”

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Book:A history of the ancient world

Source: A history of the ancient world

“If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.”

Ifs Writing Littles Novel Accounts Narrative

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the account of the creation of Adam and Eve is tied in with the rest of the historical narrative in the book of Genesis, so also this account of the fall of man, which follows the history of man's creation, is presented by the author as straightforward, narrative history”

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Book:Sin and Atonement: A Zondervan Digital Short

Source: Sin and Atonement: A Zondervan Digital Short

“Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.”

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Author:Donna J. Haraway