Fact, not Truth (Bechukotai)
There’s a fantastic scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in which Dr. Jones is explaining to his class the basics about archeology. Archeology, he says, is the search for fact. It is not the search for truth.
The reverse is true about our Torah: It is not a book of fact, but a book of truth. Whether or not God it is a fact that God split a sea in two so that Israelites could cross the Red Sea, it is true that the Exodus narrative is essential to our identity.