Is the Historical Accuracy of a Book More Important Than What It Means?

For an ancient person, like Plutark is writing a biography of Alexander the Great. For us, we're just interested in, did he really cross the frades there? We want the historical accuracy. Of course he wants to be accurate, but that's not really what he's after. He's after expressing the truth of who this person was. And if you think about the gospels like that, it solves a lot of problems,. Because you're not worried so much about, did Jesus really walk on the water?"