"If the text is sacred, if it was grasped by the audiences for whom it was made as a revelation of God's will, perhaps of his literal words, how can one hope to explain through categories developed for the understanding of such a fundamentally secular individual, and aesthetic enterprise as that of later Western literature. " (Sacred History and The Beginnings of Prose Fiction By Robert Alter) Moses and David can be considered ˜Sacred History' because to some they are just that, a story or something people made up in order to teach future generations lessons. For example, the story of David and Goliath, where David took down a "giant " in order to take the army of Israel to victory. The whole story was based around the idea that David was this small little boy that took down this huge giant, with the help of God behind you. This was supposed give future generations the strength to do anything with God behind you and supporting you, trying to make them believe in their religion that much more. Another example of this is the whole story of Moses's life. From the very beginning when he was sent away by his mother and then picked up again by the royal family at the time all the way to climbing Mt. Sinai in his later years. Moses's whole life is just an extremely elaborate story about how God works in every ones lives. Moses's started out a poor baby born into a time in history where children were being killed by the hand of the pharaoh, yet this child was saved by the hand of God. Moses's life is a huge part of sacred history because it allows for something bigger to be seen out of his life, that being the will and want to follow God. However, there is no real evidence that Moses and David really existed outside of the Jewish writings, which is a reason that some historians and others don't believe that Moses ever really existed. All of these stories of Moses and David that taught future generations lessons and morals, could be seen as just that, stories.
