Sacred history is the parts of the Torah narrative on the boundary of historicity, especially the

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and Exodus stories which can be argued to have a remote historical nucleus without any positive evidence to the effect. Rabbi

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, professor of Jewish philosophy at the

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, states In a wider sense, the term is used for all of the historical books of the Bible – i.e.,

Books of Kings The Book of Kings (, '' Sēfer Məlāḵīm'') is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Kings) in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It concludes the Deuteronomistic history, a history of Israel also including the books ...

, Ezra–Nehemiah and Books of Chronicles – spanning the period of the 10th to 5th centuries BC, and by extension also of the later books such as

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and the books of the New Testament. The term in this sense is used by

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in ''Sacred history, or, the historical part of the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testaments'', published 1709. In yet another sense, the term may refer to ecclesiastical history.

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