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Old 08-31-2015, 01:48 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
Actually, no.

Being true would make it a history text.
Being false would make it a mistaken history text.

Neither fits the criteria for the literary style known as the novel(la).
For the sake of argument here, let's say that the Bible is all fiction. What type of book would you call it. It's not a history text. It's what?
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