The failings of ancient literature became apparent to me when I was reading Livy's History of Rome. After a while you begin to recognize the pattern.
Successful commanders are steady and conservative and keep their troops in tight order until an opportunity presents itself. Shitty commanders are always reckless and allow their men to become disordered or undisciplined. After a while you start to get the hint that what Livy values are the Imperial values of his day rather than the reality of the time he was allegedly writing about.
With the bible, the nutjobs try to portray it as something more than literature by claiming their 'god' wrote it or inspired it. It's just a book and it served the interests of whoever was behind writing it.
Successful commanders are steady and conservative and keep their troops in tight order until an opportunity presents itself. Shitty commanders are always reckless and allow their men to become disordered or undisciplined. After a while you start to get the hint that what Livy values are the Imperial values of his day rather than the reality of the time he was allegedly writing about.
With the bible, the nutjobs try to portray it as something more than literature by claiming their 'god' wrote it or inspired it. It's just a book and it served the interests of whoever was behind writing it.
