Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.
Ping.
This is history, though the report itself and the Good News are central, we tend to forget that the account is very much in the tradition, even at the time, of faithful accounts, a more accurate history than that of Herodotus, centuries earlier.
Luke really serves that purpose grandly, as a studious account based on what were clearly eye-witness accounts and a deliberate effort to maintain accuracy.
Like the Transfiguration account, it is rooted in human experience, verite., with the sunset, a walk up the mountain at a certain place and time, followed by the account of an event totally unique, and about which great books and sermons have been exhausted, followed in sequence with a return down from the mountain, and a determination on the part of Jesus to focus on that work ahead of Him in Jerusalem.
It's a very human account, unique as history from the late ancient Near East.
Thank God in Christ that work He accomplished in Jerusalem is a Finished Work, to which nothing can be added or taken away.
That's another school of thought regarding what is called "history" today, one largely lost or tossed aside, particularly by those who have all their Map of the World constructed on their inner animal's here and now, "whose God is their belly." They say "history is bunk," but when they say it, they are thinking that the accounts, the written record, written by the winners of wars, is all that history is, though it is much more.
History can also be thought of as everything that has happened, in time and space, before the present moment, regardless whether any written account exists or ever did exist. When we consider history in this way, the past is "safe" from being rewritten, the character of historic figures and especially the persons, themselves, most of whom were born, lived and died unheralded, cannot be revised, except by the God of Abraham.
It can be badly written, or lied about, but the facts, the truth, of all things that have happened up until this moment are unchanging.
That's not a bad attitude to apply to the Word, through whom and by whom we all have our existence, and the worlds were formed.