After the first few books of the Old Testament, which posit a story of the supernatural creation of life, the Bible becomes what could be interpreted as a historical record of major political happenings in the Middle East and northern Africa over a period of several thousand years. Notable stories about Noah's Ark, Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel are presented more like fables and lore to create a narrative for the background of Judaism and Christianity and aren't taken as literal fact by all Jews and Christians, but people like King David (and his many wives) and Nebuchadnezzar II absolutely existed, and the Bible preserved accounts of those figures and their actions that have persisted to the modern age.

When the Bible is viewed as a historical document, one of its most noticeable pot

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