yea, there is plenty of historical insight in the bible. obviously if you're going to maintain the assumption of naturalism you can't take the miracle stories as historical fact, but that doesn't invalidate any historical content in the entire book
but it takes scholars that dedicate their lives to this **** to really decipher it for us. like the theories about the different authors... some of that is not just a matter of them coming from different eras but also different sects of judaism
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