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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
They believe it because it says so in the Koran, which is not a history book either. Real historians don't talk about Bible stories as being history. They just don't.
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I suppose it turns on what you deem a real historian.
Were Plutarch, Thucydides and Herodotus real historians?
What about Josephus?
What about Maqtal al-Husayn, Al Tarikh wa al-Maghazi, Beyhaqi or Ibn Khaldun?
Or Livy, Tacitus or Suetonius?
Do none of these non-real historians rely upon belief, myth or tradition?