From the Creation of Adam to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Embedded in the text of the Sacred Volume, the Bible itself is a continuous line of dated episodes, reaching across forty centuries of time. For it is absolutely unique, in that human histories of the great nations of the world have no beginning at all, but emerge gradually from a perfect fog of myths, legends and fables, (often absurd and grotesque), yet the Bible has, from its very first word, a definite historical character, in the greatest possible contrast with all other ancient writings.