[pjalne]

Yeah, but they weren't THE BIBLE. They were connected stories and part of the same mythos, but they weren't a collection with a name on it. And not all of these made it into the Bible, some of the major continuity problems and the stories that gave a conflicting image of God were excluded. Judeo-Christian stories and myths can be traced thousands of years back (in fact, a lot of them are adapted from even older mythical structures like Gilgamesh), but when you say 'The Bible has also lasted for 10000+ years, counting the Old and New Testaments,' the most logical way to read it is to assume you are talking about the book.