In his book Caesar and Christ, historian Will Durant writes: “That a few simple men should... have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty an ethic and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
उदाहरणार्थ, प्राचीन ग्रीक कवी, होमर यांनी लिहिलेली इलियाड आणि ओडिस्सी ही महाकाव्ये पाहा.