If the Bible was never written, what would that mean for Near Eastern historiography?

It would completely butterfly history. There may not even be such a thing as historiography .

Depends on how strict you are with the butterflies, but really, historiography of some sort is bound to develop. The Classical historiography didn't get any real cross-echo with the Jewish one until the Roman period of Alexandria, Ptolemaic period being the absolute earliest...and even then it didn't borrow as much as coexist.

Arguably, even the poetic staples that make the Bible etc. so attractive won't be completely lost, the Bible is just a particularly successful example of a much larger near-eastern tradition of sacred poetry.
 
Perhaps, maybe Zoroastrianism becomes the dominant belief system of the Middle-East? Perhaps Zoroastrianism spreads west and becomes the dominant religion along with maybe Norse beliefs. Not sure....would be a good TL for someone to try and do. Require a whole lot of background research before the first keystroke is made:D! If someone decided to do a TL about this, it would get me as a reader. I'd devote less time to reading Jonathan Edelstein's "Male Rising" than I do now. Also, less time for me to continue on with my own TL as well. Joho:)
 

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Perhaps, maybe Zoroastrianism becomes the dominant belief system of the Middle-East? Perhaps Zoroastrianism spreads west and becomes the dominant religion along with maybe Norse beliefs. Not sure....would be a good TL for someone to try and do. Require a whole lot of background research before the first keystroke is made:D! If someone decided to do a TL about this, it would get me as a reader. I'd devote less time to reading Jonathan Edelstein's "Male Rising" than I do now. Also, less time for me to continue on with my own TL as well. Joho:)

This is one of the ideas I had for my timeline. Before it died due to lack of time. I'll PM you once I revive it.
 
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