Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?

[KevinM1]

It should be noted that the location of the claim - a book, in letters, in oral tradition - does nothing to negate circular reasoning if the only reason why the claim is purported as being truthful is because the claim says so.

The Bible is the claim. That other documents and people believed/expressed the same claim before the Bible's creation doesn't mean they're different claims, and says nothing about the truth of them.