(June 24, 2011 at 7:40 pm)Parture Wrote: Historians can glean certain facts from these historical documents as other historical documents.
When the details vary so much between the gospels, and indeed other biblical texts, no facts can be gleaned at all, only inferences and then only in support of the reader's existing bias.
The bible is also at odds with every other known source that deals with the period claimed.