Quantum Windbag
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Not much but let's focus on the New Testament especially The Act of the Apostles by Luke which you brought up. There is way too much to go over every detail and we would be arguing it for years but here is a good sumarization from wiki.Your comments are based on your belief that everyone else is wrong.
Life doesn't work that way, some of the Bible is actually history.
Historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stephen is not mentioned in either Passages consistent with the historical background or Passages of disputed historical accuracy. The only primary source for information about Stephen is the New Testament book Acts of the Apostles. There is nothing else to confirm the authenticity of the story of Stephen.
As I said before, there are plenty of historical sources that are unique It seems that the only ones you categorically reject is the Bible. That is a personal bias on your part, and I don't see you exercising any rational judgement about it at all. In fact, you seem to be ignoring all the evidence that counters your assertions, and insisting on focusing on events that are unique to the Bible to prove that the Bible is fiction.
The way real scholars approach the subject is to weigh all the historical evidence for the accuracy of a document, and judge it as a whole. They don't pick one event as an excuse to ignore everything else, even if they cannot find evidence of that event anywhere else. If they did that we would ignore the works of Josephus, Tacitus, Thallus, and all the other historians of that period because they all mention things that are not mentioned anywhere else.
By the way, all of those historical people that I mentioned mention events and/or people mentioned in the New Testament. There are many others that don't, but they weren't writing about the Middle East. That doesn't prove that the New Testament is true, but it does destroy your claim that none of the biblical stories are mentioned outside the New Testament.