Well,
historically speaking, the collection of material that ended up as the book we call the Bible, was the result of Constantine The Great in need of a single piece of work, to unite all the various nations and cultures within the Roman Empire under one belief system and when these events transpired, Christianity was the 'new black'.
The Bible is essentially a commissioned piece of work, a huge fabric of various belief systems and anecdotes as well as a lot of material left out for political reasons. Divinely inspired or not...