“There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places, and events mentioned in the Bible. In fact, external sources verify that at least eighty persons mentioned in the Bible were actual historical figures. Fifty people from the Old Testament, and thirty people from the New Testament.” PeopleWritingPersonsFactsNamesEventsFiguresSourceBibleHistoricalThirtyFiftyDozenTestamentEightyNew TestamentAccuracyOld TestamentVerifyHistorical FigureHistorical Accuracy Author:Charlie Campbell
“There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.” AbilitySourceTerribleJudgmentAreasFilledConstantHistoricalIgnorantCategoriesPretenseDistortionBlundersGeneralization Author:Camille Paglia
“Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.” Has BeensWarSeemsLyingSocialPoorBehindsViolenceGroupsProduceSourceResearchHistoricalHistorianMurdererAvoidedParentalAbusiveMotheringSociologistsHistorical Research Author:Lloyd deMause
“To me, healing means you have to recognize there is a wound and you try to understand what the sources of the wound are, which means you try to tell a story about how it came to be. So you have to engage in some historical interpretation.” TryingMeanStoriesHealingSourceHistoricalWoundsInterpretation Author:Cornel West
“Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development from the primitive community in Jerusalem founded on Pentecost to the world-wide mission of Paul climaxing with his arrival in Rome, the political centre of the Greco-Roman world. The Pauline epistles are understood not so much as historical sources reflecting a much more multifaceted early Christian situation fraught with tensions but as theological treatises expounding and defending the doctrine of justification by faith.” WorldChristianPoliticalUnderstandingCommunitySituationSourceDevelopmentUnderstoodHistoricalMissionsDeterminedWideDoctrineTensionRomeJustificationPrimitiveCentreReflectingApostlesStraightforwardTheologicalArrivalsJerusalemPentecostJustification By Faith Author:Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
“For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.” SometimesValuesWrittenInformationSourceImportanceIndependentHistoricalIllustrationArchaeology Author:Michael Rostovtzeff
“The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can be as valid as any other can. Experience, dialogue, feelings, and conversations are equated with Scripture while certitude, authority, and doctrine are to be eschewed! No doctrines are to be absolute and truth or doctrine must be considered only with personal experiences, traditions, historical leaders, etc. The Bible is not an answer book.” BookFeelingsAnswersLeaderSourceConversationAuthorityTraditionAbsolutesHistoricalScriptureDoctrineDialogueEtcAccuratePersonal ExperiencesCertitude Author:Brian D. McLaren
“If a source gives us material that is of political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance that has not been published before and is comprised of official documents or recordings, then we will publish it.” IfsGivingPoliticalMaterialsSourceHistoricalOfficialsSignificanceEthicalDocumentsPublishDiplomaticWikileaksHistorical Significance Author:Julian Assange
“If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of the story in the later Priestly source, it is more miraculous: The water stands up on either side like a wall. There are walls of water standing up. As you move back in time, oddly enough, the story becomes more historical.” IfsEnoughStoriesMovingSidesWaterSeaSourceWallStandingHistoricalStormMiraculousRetellingBack In TimeExodus Author:Elie Wiesel
“Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut up and rearranged to form part of the narrative.” MadeBookWholeFormCuttingSourceHistoricalVariousNarrative Author:George Saunders
“Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.” CenturyInformationSourceHistoricalCriticsPrimariesResurrectionBiblicalDocumentsTestamentNew Testament19th CenturyReliability Author:Josh McDowell
“Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.” WantBookEnoughPhilosophyEyeLiteratureInterestMy OwnFictionSourceHistoricalMy FavoriteTheologyContemporaryPrimariesGenreRelevantEssaysAntiquityOld BooksGenre IsPrimary Source Author:Marilynne Robinson