Bible among the Myths: Unique Revelation or Just Ancient Literature?The Bible Among the Myths is a sometimes controversial, always engaging corrective to a growing rejection in Western society of the revelation found within the Old Testament regarding a transcendent God who breaks into time and space and reveals himself in and through human activity. Sixty years ago, most biblical scholars maintained that Israels religion was uniquethat it stood in marked contrast to the faiths of its ancient Near Eastern neighbors.