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Reddit mentions of Searching for Meaning: An Introduction to Interpreting the New Testament
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> Surely the fact that people wrote about miracles casts doubts on the reliability of their accounts?
Not really actually, because those events don't matter when we're talking historiography. Like what matters is, for example, Jesus going to a city, talking there, then being executed. We can be pretty certain that happened. Whether after talking a man was cured of leprosy is irrelevant there really when we look at it to determine the events going on.
That's what I mean by separating Theology and Historiography. Like with some of the most blatantly metaphorical parts are not going to reflect anything in history, or even close to it, because they're not meant to. Like the opening of the Bible actually, you're never going to be able to prove or disprove the creation of the universe as it's described there because it's not a scientific manual - it's just a very basic guide to explain in a way that everyone from children to savants can understand that essentially - there's a God, he did it.
But, particularly in the OT, there's lists upon lists upon lists of kings lineages that ruled Israel or other countries that they were at war with and those are only there so that we can look at it and go "yup checks out, those were all kings - there tombs are right here" and then assume that when it says one died fighting or peacefully or whatever that's also accurate.
>I feel like understanding more about the history of the bible and research into historical texts as a whole. You wouldn’t know of a good place to start or done reading material that you would recommend?
This is a decent intro to the actual formation and writing of the Bible.
And this is more about the different interpretations in it.
The first is probably more what you're looking for, I think.
Full disclosure my knowledge on this comes from hundreds of different things over like 10 years of taking my faith seriously rather than one book so if they're completely crap, i'm really sorry, but i've heard good things. :P