The Bible is a unique piece of literature.
Gabriel Sivan wrote concerning the Hebrew Bible:
"Since the dawn of civilisation no book has inspired as much creative endeavor among writers was the "Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible. In poetry, drama, and fiction its literary influence has been unrivaled. The German poet Heinrich Heine, writing in 1830, described its significance in lyrical terms: "Sunrise and sunset, promise and fulfillment, birth and death, the whole human drama, everything is in this book.... It is the Book of Books, Biblia." With varying insight, but unvarying consistency, writers in almost every land and culture have for more than a millenium found a matchless treasure house of themes and characters in the Bible. These they have reworked and reinterpreted in the portrayal of eternal motifs - as, for example, God and Man, the conflict of Good and Evil, love, jealousy, and man's struggle for freedom, truth, and justice. (Sivan, BC, 218)