In Mimesis, Auerbach takes the well-known stories of the sacrifice of Issac in the Old Testament and Peter's threefold denial of Jesus in the New Testament and compares them respectively to the narrative of Odysseus's scar in the Odyssey, and several texts in Roman literature. Auerbach highlights the holistic demands of Biblical literature, and the truth claims of real faith, as well as the sensory representation of daily life and historical movements premised on these. The comparisons Auerbach makes in Mimesis between biblical narratives and classical literature not only provide a new perspective on the dispute between Athens and Jerusalem, but also direct the attention to the dispute between belief and philosophy between Athens and Jerusalem.