Rather than my answer, turn here......
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Bible
A long winded article which should be right up your alley.
Historicity of the Bible:
The
historicity of the Bible is the question of the
Bible's relationship to
history—covering not just the Bible's acceptability as history but also the ability to understand the
literary forms of biblical
narrative. One can extend biblical historicity to the evaluation of whether or not the Christian
New Testament is an accurate record of the
historical Jesus and of the
Apostolic Age. This tends to vary depending upon the opinion of the scholar......