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How much of the bible have you read?
JuniorSpaceman:
I've read all of the Pentateuch (lots of it studied, with commentaries, etc), and a fair bit of the rest of the OT. I haven't really read any of the NT, except for the references that used to turn up in heavy metal lyrics, or things I've come across on Skeptical/Atheist sites/podcasts/etc.
Bunsen:
Literary scholar. Read it several times through for my undergrad studies.
Morvis13:
Cover to Cover but skipped some of the begats. Read it as a fiction book and it completely sucked.
Neon Genesis:
Read it cover to cover. Some parts are better than others.
Kwisatz Haderach:
--- Quote from: Morvis13 on Jul 12, 2012, 10:34:49 PM ---Read it as a fiction book and it completely sucked.
--- End quote ---
See how the Bible is a collection of individual books written at different tie s for differenet purposes and for different audiences, it makes sense that it would "suck" if you tried to read it a a single work of fiction.
However, if you are interested in the Bible as literature, back in the 90s there was a guy wrote a book called God: A Biography, in which he looked at how God developed as a literary character throughout the books of the Bible.
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