The book was intended to serve as a counterpart to F.F. Bruce's Are the New Testament Documents Reliable? (1943), and in so doing to counter the arguments of Biblical minimalism, which casts doubt upon the historical value of the Old Testament.
Buku ini dimaksudkan sebagai pasangan buku karya F. F. Bruce, Are the New Testament Documents Reliable? (1943), untuk melawan argumen penganut minimalis Alkitab, yang meragukan nilai sejarah Perjanjian Lama.