A fellow student brought up that such and such governor did not rule during such a period, so the Bible was defective. The professor popoo'ed any discrepancy about who was governor at such a period, because "we really don't know who was "governor during that time" except what was written in the Bible." And not five years later I read an article; which stated that the archeologist were astounded when they found direct evidence that the name of the governor during a certain period was what the Bible said it was, rather than several centuries later as what was earlier believed. Kind of like the Governor John Brown lived served in 1825 and his great great grandson, John Brown, served in 1950.
Thank you, my professor too presented the bible (parts of it) as basically a true history, even if some things got a bit scrambled due to time, mis-translation, etc.
Prof. A. was a very serious minded guy. Even though we kind of knew he was a believing Jew (don’t remember how we knew this, but that’s my recollection), he would NEVER have cited the Bible as true just because he believed in it relgiously.