Nor is it clear that one historically reliable strategy for selling serious drama on Broadway will always work.

But it must be stressed that Herodotus' report is a mixture of Greek and eastern legends and is not historically reliable.

It is the one historically reliable barrier to war: democracies do not attack democracies.

The fourth gospel, John, includes a number of historically reliable details, but it differs greatly from the first three gospels, and historians largely discount it.

Many of the battles listed are purely mythological, and none are historically reliable.

Despite being the main sources for the Jesus' life, not everything contained in the New Testament gospels is considered to be historically reliable.

Throughout his career, he opposed the higher criticism, which held that the Bible was inaccurate on many points and not historically reliable.

This 13th-century prose text is not considered historically reliable.

Mr. Quarterman acknowledges the numbers as an historically reliable set of data.

He viewed the New Testament writings as historically reliable and the truth claims of Christianity as hinging on their being so.