Pagan stories
>external struggle, action figure and fairytale style conflict
Biblical stories
>internal struggle, moral, psychological and spiritual conflict
Anyone else notice this? It is a bit of a generalization of course and is much less applicable to Greek drama, but seems like the overall case. Even pic related (Orthodox icon of Jacob struggling with God, which earns him the name Israel) reads more like a mystical description of an internal struggle .
Consequences in the Bible seldom have to do with cunning or physical prowess, they spring directly from existential dilemmas