Personal - Robbie Heath

I recently was a reading an excerpt in a book that was discussing the literary value of the Bible. About the poetic nature of certain books and how stories are told in the Bible, especially the stories of Jesus in the four Gospels. It seems that compared to many stores, or histories of that time in the ancient world, the Bible was constructed very differently. Ancient epics apparently lacked the detail, or rather the realism that is in the Bible. These are small things such as saying how far from the boat Jesus was when he walked on water, or a sigh, or sweat. However, it is these details that pull readers in because they can relate to these everyday details. Almost all stories or movies today have such details at least to extent. It seems that how the Bible was written has changed how modern literature is approached today. Would you agree that this advent of realism came from Bible literature? Was the Bible a sole source for causing this change, or just one part. However, it most undoubtedly influenced and changed European and western writing.