Sentence examples for were not historical from inspiring English sources

Some scholars have argued that Hicetas and Ecphantus, both of Syracuse, were not historical figures at all but rather characters in dialogues written by Heraclides of Pontus, a fourth-century member of the Academy.

Following the earlier German Higher Critics, who argued for a historical approach to religious texts, David Strauss published Leben Jesu or The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined which argued that the events of the New Testament were not historical but rather mythical.

But these communities are not historical abstractions.

Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts.

It is not historical inevitability, but something close.

I wanted to say we're not historical, we're here now in the 21st century.

In that sense, my work is not historical; it is intimately tied to the present.

But what about countries where the culture of wine is not historical?

These are not historical curiosities: they reveal much about where power lies in the British establishment.

Even when those heroes are not historical people, they carry the burden of representativeness.

FR courses are not historical overviews of scientific or mathematical topics.