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What are "Bible tales"?
Evidently kosta defines them as just stuff that people made up while stumbling aimlessly along in a pointless word, just to cheer themselves up, dontcha know? Because the tales are (according to him) "self-interested," they are unreliable; thus we should not believe them.
But maybe I should have let kosta answer your question first. :^)
Anyhoot, it is my understanding that Bible "tales" are based in actual human experiences. In this sense, they cannot be just "made-up stuff." The experiences themselves prompt the telling of the "tale."
In Plato, there's a "tale" like this — the "'saving tale' that will save us if we save it." To me, this insight prefigures the Christian message, delivered some 500 years later.
Thanks so much for writing, trisham!