Kind of hilarious that the New Testament ends with a psychedelic trip report, but
As the original canon, the Bible is a lot of different genres of writing! The “begat” lists are genaeologies, Numbers is a census, there are livestock ownership records
Exodus is an epic narrative, Deuteronomy is a collection of speeches, Leviticus is a book of law, Proverbs is self-help, Songs is erotic poetry
The gospels are first-person accounts, the epistles are letters, written directions from superiors to their branch offices, and/or persuasive essays
And Revelations is a trip report.
Like you hear about Jewish/Protestant traditions of literacy as so important, and by now that’s pretty abstracted like “a broad worldview”
Well first off, in a world where literacy isn’t a given, just being able to transfer information between people who are not physically close at the same time is key, but even if it’s not so rare just the fact that anyone who learns from scripture has been exposed to a variety of written forms which they can then mimic is an advance far past just learning to record speech as writing.
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