(June 11, 2015 at 3:02 pm)SteveII Wrote: How about 27 books/letters and other historical references describing actual events (see, no Bible proves Bible).
I believe the threshold for historical evidence is seven independent sources referencing the event or person in question. Of those seven 3 to 5 are to be primary sources (meaning they were there) and the rest may be secondary sources (someone else referred to them or it).
So letters of apostles would be one primary, records of the Romans would be a secondary primary, and records of Herod's administration would be third primary, and records of the Sanhedrin serve as a fourth primary, and letters of person who are not apostles would be a fifth primary. After that there are a vast quantity of secondary references.