In response to George Monbiot's book, Feral: Searching for enchantment on the frontiers of rewilding, Steven Poole observes that the «
pastoral literary genre has long been a solidly bourgeois form of escapism», and that it reflects a regressive form of politics.
The Bible is, in reality, a complex collection of historical documents, written over the course of at least 1,500 years, which represents various
literary genres (everything from history to parables, poetry to
pastoral letters and legal code to visions of the future), worldviews, languages, cultures, agendas and opinions.