Why is the Bible a valuable historical source?

The Bible is an indispensable historical source for the historian who specializes in the history of the Ancient World. It reveals not only the elements of the political history of the most ancient peoples and civilizations, but also describes their life, social structure. The Bible also has a description of the appearance of many eastern peoples, which plays a large role in the work of an ethnographer. Ancient states, wars, rulers, peoples, nomadic and “barbarian” tribes – all this can be learned from the Bible.