historicity
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of historicity
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Reading Charles Murray on the historicity of the Gospels was not, suffice to say, high on my list of expectations for 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
As I see it, there is a great lack of specific historicity and context with such claims.
From Salon ● May 14, 2024
“Manhunt” wears its historicity lightly, and its tone and dialogue lean decidedly contemporary.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
There’s also a curious lack of historicity that feels freeing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2020
The finding of images of deities has been interpreted as showing beyond a possibility of question the historicity of the narrative in Daniel concerning the image erected by Nebuchadrezzar, etc.
From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Frederick Carl Eiselen
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