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Showing Original Post only (View all)From a literary standpoint, The Bible is the most important work of Western Literature. [View all]
Seriously, you could never understand Milton's Paradise Lost without the basis of The Bible.
The Bible is incredibly important in understanding Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia.
So much of Western Literature is absolutely dependent upon that work.
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From a literary standpoint, The Bible is the most important work of Western Literature. [View all]
MohRokTah
Jun 2014
OP
Then you would have no problem characterizing The Bible as Evan S. Connell saw those writers. . .
Journeyman
Jun 2014
#2
I read the King Jame's Version through, and selected sections from other translations. . .
Journeyman
Jun 2014
#13
My comment had nothing to do with whether you read it but that your criticism was puerile. . .
Journeyman
Jun 2014
#21
Not to mention not much from the Bible was original. Mostly just a rip-off of Sumerian myths. nt
Quixote1818
Jun 2014
#31
I think it's ONE OF the most important works if you count all the books together,
LuvNewcastle
Jun 2014
#9
The bible is referenced in a lot of other works, but it's not all that influential in terms of style
LeftyMom
Jun 2014
#22
Actually, Milton and Alighieri don't Western Literature make. Knowledge of Catholic Church dogma
ancianita
Jun 2014
#23
It's a huge piece of the puzzle, to be sure, but unequivocally "most important"?
nomorenomore08
Jun 2014
#26