/lit/ - Literature

>the bible
>fiction

Well, this is what it mainly is... In my library Bible, Koran and the Book of the Dead (along with some more obscure religious book) are in the fantazy section. De-santified but still a part of what has built our culture. ignoring it, not reading those, under the pretext of atheism, is bit like whillinglu wearing a cultural blinfold. Anyway,t hat's my serious answer to a serious question...

>>7955918
well i don't move the main abrahamic religious books to the fiction isle for fun you know!

>>7955918
Writers for centuries have been reading it both in literary and religious terms.

It IS fiction everyone knows that. Adam and Eve is a fucking myth, snakes don't talk and bla bla bla.
t. Went to a catholic school and currently going to a catholic college

>>7956034

>>7955943
>fantazy

kill urself my man

>all this faggots saying that religious texts are fiction and fantasy

I don't know why I keep coming here.

Many throughout the ages have accepted it as a great collection of Philosophy and Fiction.
True esoteric scholars realise that it was intended to be Fiction. The shadow that is cast by the sun. (I'm not a Christian btw)

>>7956105
>Taking metephors in the Old Testament literally.

How plebian can you be? Everyone knows the story of Adam and Eve is a metephor for human evolution and our societal and technological development, but the corruption and evil that blossoms within civilization.

>Man lived in harmony with nature, but became but became greedy in the pursuit of knowledge and instant gratification

>>7955918
I think you should approach it as a little more than fiction, if anything as more as an interesting sociological text. It has influenced many people, great and small, throughout time. Remembering the literary context is the most important part. I'm saying this because reading it as a work of fiction cover-to-cover is going to be very boring/difficult. Also, it interacts with other texts differently than an influential work of fiction because it is the representation of a system of closely held beliefs for many.
Even if he isn't to you, Christ is much more than an interesting character to Christian writers, and should be read as such.

>>7956118
what would you call them? Non-fiction?

I'm thinking about reading it. but i currently am on the dhammapada as an audiobook. It's okay but there's a lot of chanting in obscure languages.

Its there some book that analize/study the bible passages? I always read nice things on the bible, etc.
I mean, im not atheits, but walk over the water, getting people back to life and all this stuff its just...

>>7956220
Of course, critical editions of the Bible such as the Norton or oxford.

The Literary Guide to the Bible

>>7956614
ok thanks.

>>7956172
I don't know about that person but personally I consider scripture to be a separate type of work from literature since the intention of the creator is different. So seeing as fiction and non-fiction are classifications of literature I would say that scripture is neither of those things.