An adequate synthesis?

[Deamiter]

I just feel as if these theologians have so little faith in the writers of Scripture to have recorded a miracle properly and weeded out stylistic exaggeration from historical recording - especially in the Gospels which appear very much to have been written with the express purpose of historical recording! Or perhaps I'm not being liberal enough.

Of course you're assuming here that the writers of the gospels (none of whom actually witnessed any of the events) WANTED to separate historical facts from stylized accounts. Their cultural context was very different from when Genesis was recorded and it's clear they valued facts much more than Moses et al. but you don't have to be horribly liberal to recognize that they didn't value ultra-factual accounts the way we do today!