Buzsaw writes:
A library is a building. The Bible is a book...
The Bible is a library. The 66 (or so) books ought to be your first clue.
Some of it is history, though that doesn't necessarily mean that it's an accurate account. And much of it isn't history at all, doesn't even pretend to be history. The Psalms and Proverbs contain little or nothing that could be called history. The epistles contain next to no history. Even the gospels are more biography than history.
Which is why I say it's useless to describe the Bible as "a historical record". It's a record of many things, only a few of them even purported to be history.
Regarding it as a historical record has value depending on one's ideology.
I don't have an ideology.
“Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place”
-- Joseph Goebbels
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