What’s the Bible for? We requested dozens of writers to answer this query in seven phrases or much less, in addition to to develop on their response in a couple of sentences. To see the entire responses collectively as they’re posted, bookmark this web page.
Falling right into a literary ocean, infinitely deep
My grandmother gave me my first Bible when she heard I had the a part of Job’s daughter in Archibald MacLeish’s J.B. I opened it and fell into the ocean. However I by no means misplaced that first impression: the Bible is for literature, as a refuge from the coarse phrases and pictures of our age; for legislation (if not for laws); for divine steerage (if not for divination); for knowledge, veiled and revealed.
