Jimmy Williams reveals three tests that are used in historiography and literary criticism to determine the authenticity of biblical documents.

Book by Marc Zvi Brettler provides an overview of biblical historiography and examines the possible motives of biblical authors.

Provides a review and purchasing details for a book edited by V. Philips Long that offers several essays about Israelite historiography.

Provides a brief introduction to issues related to the authenticity and accuracy of the Hebrew Bible as a document of history.

Contains reviews and purchasing details for John van Seters' book that investigates the origins and nature of history writing in ancient Israel.

Niels Peter Lemche furnishes this essay that explores problems of reconstructing a pre-Hellenistic Israelite historiography.