Why are other civilizations ignored in the Bible?

[DeistPaladin]

Would you read The Wizard of Oz and make an argument that Dorothy did not go to Oz? She really went to Wichita and was giving blowjobs to soldiers and then took a bus home? Sure, that is probably a more realistic story of a teenage runaway but it is not what the story says.

How about we tell the story of "The Historical Clark Kent".

He was discovered as a foundling by a childless rural couple who raised him on a farm in some small town somewhere in the Great Plains of America. He moved to some larger city where he became a reporter for a newspaper of some kind. In his capacity as a reporter, he was known as a classic muckraker, diligently hounding corrupt politicians and exposing criminal behavior.

At one point, he does an expose on a pharmaceutical company owned by one Lex Luther, who was pushing a worthless or even dangerous weight loss drug onto what would have been an unsuspecting public. This reporter, Kent, became famous as a crime fighter in that capacity. In later years, his fame leads him to work directly with the police in McGruff style public service ads informing the public of how to keep an eye out for crime, etc.

He settles down with fellow reporter Lois Lane and is remembered by all as "a really super man".

Ta da!

Of course, my fan fic bears almost no resemblance to the details of the classic comic, names notwithstanding. The story IS about the super powers. But hey, you're right that it gives Ehrman something to write about.