(ThyBlackMan.com) People often forget that the Bible is not just a spiritual document detailing God's dealing with humanity through Israel, and introducing Jesus and the Gospels to the world, but also a terrific compendium of historical events that are recorded nowhere else but in the Bible. It is true that other civilisations, other than the Israelites, compiled their own records, but their records did not endure and so are permanently lost to humanity. Let's take but one example of the unique, historical value of the Bible. It is from the Bible, and only the Bible, that we know how different