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The Bible and Its Influence

Disciplines:
religion/religious studies

Summary

A textbook designed to teach the Bible as literature and cultural document in public schools — covering the Bible's influence on literature, art, music, and culture without religious advocacy.

Core Contribution

The Bible as cultural literacy: demonstrating that knowledge of the Bible is necessary to understand Western literature, art, music, and political discourse — regardless of religious belief. Designed to be constitutionally defensible for use in public schools. An academic rather than devotional treatment of the most influential text in Western civilization.

Historical Influences

E.D. Hirsch Northrop Frye

Intellectual Lineage

Religious Studies Cultural Literacy Movement

Allied Works

The Great Code Words with Power

Contemporaries & Peers

Cultural Literacy

Minds Influenced

Public School Bible Curriculum

Intellectual Posterity

Bible-as-Literature Curriculum

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