However, Judeo-Christian thought also makes an "innovation of the first importance", Eliade says, because it embraces the notion of linear, historical time; in Christianity, "time is no longer [only] the circular Time of the Eternal Return; it has become linear and irreversible Time" [REF].
Neil Forsyth writes that "what distinguishes both Jewish and Christian religious systems [..] is that they elevate to the sacred status of myth narratives that are situated in historical time" [REF].