/lit/ - Literature

>>22371272
You'll understand basically none of it.
Idiot fundies will bitch about it, but you need some sort of lens to interpret the Bible historically.
>assyriology
>classics
>Roman frontier history
>hebrew midrash bullshit
>other big religion
Any of this will help you understand the Bible as a piece of history. If you don't know the historical context then good luck deriving moral context. I'm not surprised so few people read the Bible, the translations are good but it's still ancient legend (Genesis), fable (Job), centuries of chronicles, prophecy, and biography. What a book. There's a reason most people rely on a pastor to guide their reading to some degree.

>Will I get anything out of it?
>starting with Genesis
Probably not, you have to dive deep into it or it just kind of all blurs past you.

>>21729234
>>21725150
If the far-away fantasy world with some details being eerily realistic doesn't capture by book one, then there's no need to continue reading the series.
>what are rushes? what are they talking about? who grabs rushes? blankets? carpets? reeds? what? before bed?
>those are rush-lights, and they're a cheaper version of candles
>candles were expensive, and peasants more commonly used rush lights, wicks soaked in fat, for emergency lights at night
who fucking wrote this