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Those references ultimately go to Christian scholars who are looking for evidence for their beliefs, not secular historians. And they are basing them on the sam

• giraffe_lady 5y ago
  That first assertion should be pretty easy to back up, assuming you did the implied work of following all those citations, identifying the religious beliefs (?) and motivations (???) of each author. The fact that you think the second argument is a strong one alone indicates that you aren't particularly informed about the practice of history. A lot of things are well-established historical fact (to the extent anything can be!) despite not having any contemporaneous records of them. Even entire historical figures. Untangling those webs of knowledge, influence, bias, motivation, and uncertainty to determine which things are likely true within them pretty is the work historians do. Even with less contested individuals for whom we do have contemporary accounts, we don't just accept those accounts as facts.