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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The Bible (does not matter the version) is fiction.
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Even atheists agree it has some historical content. It doesn't go under fiction or non-fiction; too binary. It goes under religion.
Also the Christian bit is rather different:
1) Luke & Acts, Matthew, Mark and John are accounts of an event. Some of it might be fictional, but even enemies agree Jesus/Yeshua/Joshua (same name) existed.
2) The Letters are probably not fiction, but collected letters.
3) The Revelation of John is seriously weird.
The Jewish Bible / Tenach has laws, wisdom writing, songs, prophets, some mostly historical books and the poetic pre-history in Genesis. From Abram /Abraham leaving Ur or Erech or wherever (Chaldees is from Septuagint and were later people) it's a more literal style of history in Genesis, though with little external confirmation. You can claim the 613 mitzvot or the Ten commandments have a fictional origin or invented by men if you don't beleive in God, or believe in a different god, but they are not fiction like Asimov's 3 laws or laws in the Wheel of Time because people have tried to interpret and keep them for over 2000 years. Maybe nearly 3000.
Certainly none of it is Fiction in the sense of "The Lord of the Rings" or any of the Scientology texts.
So certain Religious works get their own category: Religion.
So Fiction and non-Fiction is too binary.