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Has anybody here read the Bible for purely literary purposes?
It seems that, aside from Virgil and Homer (I’m generalizing here), most of western and Russian literature draws from the old and new testaments in some manner or another. This has come up in everything from Charles Dickens to William Faulkner to Dostoyevsky to Toni Morrison and everywhere in between. I’m not really a religious person, but I am considering reading the Bible and perhaps some commentaries as a means to broaden my understanding of what is, in large part, the basis for most western literature. Has anybody else done this, and if so, what was your experience?
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It seems that, aside from Virgil and Homer (I’m generalizing here), most of western and Russian literature draws from the old and new testaments in some manner or another. This has come up in everything from Charles Dickens to William Faulkner to Dostoyevsky to Toni Morrison and everywhere in between. I’m not really a religious person, but I am considering reading the Bible and perhaps some commentaries as a means to broaden my understanding of what is, in large part, the basis for most western literature. Has anybody else done this, and if so, what was your experience?
#entertainment
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