a: To read the bible as literature ~
b: reading Moby Dick as a whaling manual

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"The trouble is it's not like any other book. To read the Bible as literature is like reading Moby Dick as a whaling manual or The Brothers Karamazov for its punctuation."


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Writer: Buechner
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Date: Jul 28 2015 7:36 PM


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