Most Evangelicals, then, would agree that historical statements asserted in the Bible may be incomplete but not false. A more delicate question arises when it is suggested that incomplete information, in the very nature of the case, is defective and inevitably distorts the picture. This inference, however, is legitimate only when the given information is put to a use different from that intended by the writer.
-- Moises Silva, "Historical Reconstruction in New Testament Criticism" in D. A. Carson and John D. Woodbridge, eds., Hermeneutics, Authority, and Canon, 111