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Journeyman

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2. Then you would have no problem characterizing The Bible as Evan S. Connell saw those writers. . .

Reply to MohRokTah (Original post)

Mon Jun 16, 2014, 11:25 PM

Jun 2014

People like to say that if Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer,
Boccaccio, Calderón, Lord Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton
had never lived we would experience worse wars, usury,
more oppressive fraud, malfeasance and servitude.
I doubt it. I think they functioned as entertainers
who taught nothing. I submit the continuation of
everything they abhorred substantiates my argument.

Evan S. Connell, Points for a Compass Rose

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From a literary standpoint, The Bible is the most important work of Western Literature. [View all] MohRokTah Jun 2014 OP

Bushwah HERVEPA Jun 2014 #1

Then you have no basic understanding of Western Literature. MohRokTah Jun 2014 #5

Homer is the father of Western canon. Rex Jun 2014 #20

Then you would have no problem characterizing The Bible as Evan S. Connell saw those writers. . . Journeyman Jun 2014 #2

Pretty much hits the nail on the head. MohRokTah Jun 2014 #6

the bible is largely unreadable waddirum Jun 2014 #3

Me. MohRokTah Jun 2014 #4

I read the King Jame's Version through, and selected sections from other translations. . . Journeyman Jun 2014 #13

I'm neither ignorant nor illiterate waddirum Jun 2014 #16

My comment had nothing to do with whether you read it but that your criticism was puerile. . . Journeyman Jun 2014 #21

The book of Esther is not boring. ChazII Jun 2014 #28

Its the most commercially successful piece of fiction. HooptieWagon Jun 2014 #7

Hear, Hear! defacto7 Jun 2014 #29

Not to mention not much from the Bible was original. Mostly just a rip-off of Sumerian myths. nt Quixote1818 Jun 2014 #31

So is this logic correct? LostOne4Ever Jun 2014 #8

No. You've got it wrong. MohRokTah Jun 2014 #12

I think it's ONE OF the most important works if you count all the books together, LuvNewcastle Jun 2014 #9

I disagree, it's more important. MohRokTah Jun 2014 #10

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, then. LuvNewcastle Jun 2014 #18

horsehocky nt GusBob Jun 2014 #11

Read a book. eom MohRokTah Jun 2014 #14

Seriously? Prophet 451 Jun 2014 #15

True. Doesn't mean I have to believe in its virtues. nt alp227 Jun 2014 #17

Better than Homer? Rex Jun 2014 #19

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

Here's my take HeiressofBickworth Jun 2014 #24

Oh I dig, Hillary meant it's influential in a Cliff Notes way whatchamacallit Jun 2014 #25

It's a huge piece of the puzzle, to be sure, but unequivocally "most important"? nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #26

Don't really care much for Western literature. liberal_at_heart Jun 2014 #27

The Bible isn't even a work defacto7 Jun 2014 #30

Precisely why Jefferson called it a "Dunghill" nt Quixote1818 Jun 2014 #32

The Epic of Gilgamesh. Without it, it's doubtful the Bible would have existed cali Jun 2014 #33

I wouldn't say most important, I would say influential and in a bad way Quixote1818 Jun 2014 #34

n=2 does not make a proof. GeorgeGist Jun 2014 #35