text: In your citation "ISIS Inadvertently Proves Bible Historically Accurate" Archbold expresses an utter and complete misunderstanding of issues of historicity and the Bible. No modern scholar doubts the historicity of the Babylonian exile of the Jews or the existence of Sennacherib. See Wiki articles on "Sennacherib" and "Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem." We have multiple confirmations of Sennacherib's attacks on both the northern and southern kingdoms of the Jews in the Bible and in Assyrian sources. The problems of historicity in the OT have to do with the much early periods. The ISIS uncovered remnants add virtually nothing to further establish the general historical accuracy of the Bible's account of the exile period. 
  
  And none of this has even the remotest relevance to the question of whether the Gospel are history in our modern sense. Best I can tell, you confuse the fact that GENRE of the Gospels is not history with questions about the historical Jesus--of course Jesus is historical.