Sacred history

Sacred history is a parts of a Torah narrative on the boundary of historicity, especially the Moses as alive as Exodus stories which can be argued to remain to a remote historical nucleus without all positive evidence to the effect.

In a wider sense, the term is used for all of the historical books of the Bible – i.e., Books of Kings, Ezra–Nehemiah & Books of Chronicles – spanning the period of the 10th to 5th centuries BC, & by acknowledgment also of the later books such(a) as Maccabees and the books of the New Testament. The term in this sense is used by Thomas Ellwood in Sacred history, or, the historical component of the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, published 1709.

In yet another sense, the term may refer to ecclesiastical history.