/lit/ - Literature

The Bible

The Bible, NABRE translation

>>3758479
>>3758480
The Bible isn't a book it's a collection of books. Try again.

>>3758489

The Book of Job

>>3758489

>>3758489

book [ bk ]
bound collection of pages: a collection of printed or manuscript pages sewn or glued together along one side and bound between rigid boards or flexible covers
published work: a published work of literature, science, or reference, or a work intended for publication

Pretty sure that the Bible fits the definition of a book.

>>3758489
You are a faggot. Try again

that ethereal book which explains how i can bypass this inconceivable limit.

>>3758506
It's a collection of church canon, which are all separate texts.

It's like saying you'd choose the entire English canon just because it's technically possible to bind it all together in one "book".

>>3758506
I'm going to start selling individual books of the Bible for plebs like him.

Depends on how we define "book".

>>3758525
Books for giants?

Daodejing

>>3758522

it's technically possible to bind it all together in one "book".

how would you propose they do that

>>3758489


>this fucking guy
Id bring a hustler

ASOIAF

The collected works of Plato is the only reasonable answer

Infinite Jest

Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It'd take me that long to actually understand it all! (ba-dum-tss)

>>3760711
>one book

The Neverending story

obligatory joke answer: check

The complete dialogues of Plato, with footnotes

The Bible of course.

If I had to choose something else it would be probably be Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion but I'm not sure. There are other dogmatic works that would be similarly edifying.

War and Peace

>>3763324
>>3758480
>>3758479
Confirmed for never having read it all the way through.

Sooner take the complete annotated oxford shakespeare.

>>3763364
What makes you think that I have not read the Bible in its entirety?

>>3763343
this

>>3758493
If you have the stomach for it I'd suggest to you Joseph Caryl's 12 volume work "Practical Observations on Job."

The Bible, and yes, I've read the entire thing, many books more than once.

sasha grey's book
nasty shit in there

>>3763368
Because there's a troll whose been on here the last couple of weeks spamming the board with Bible related threads, and it's very unlikely that they've actually read the thing cover to cover.

Also, because more often than not the book that people talk about bringing to a desert Island is one they haven't read.

If you're not the troll I apologize, but I'd still recommend a different book. The bible is an important book, but better books have been written based off of it. It's adaptations are better than the source material.

>>3763383
But what is the use of adaptation material without the source? The Bible is so deep that it allows all of these adaptations, that's why the Bible is my desert island book.

>>3763373
Here's a picture of a recent reprinting of it to give you some idea of the size.

>>3763390
>what is the use of adaptation material without the source?
Plenty,
This is assuming in the hypothetical that you retain all of your previous memories and knowledge of other works. you don't have to reference genesis to understand the allegories in things like Dante's Inferno or Paradise Lost. that's just silly. Just because the adaptation owes its existence to the source material it doesn't mean that the adaptation can't stand alone or isn't an empirically better read than the source material

>>3758476
>bringing the bible on the island

I forgot to make it clear that no one will be watching you read and no one will know what you bring.

>>3763383
You're silly, there's no bible spamming troll.
Most of /lit/ just happens to be mature enough to realize that the bible has had a profound influence on Western literature and thought, more so than any other text, and to dismiss it offhand as is the wont of the edgy teens that infest the rest of 4chan would be just plain stupidity.

>>3763401
Dante's Comedy and Paradise Lost aren't "adaptions" of the bible

>>3763416
Bullshit,
Every thread we make it explicitly clear that the bible has great literary value, and we praise the King James Version specifically.

But there have been way too many threads for this to be a coincidence. Not to mention the threads that are obvious trolls just from the way they are worded.

And the second part of the trolls M.O is after he or she floods the board with religion threads to bait responses. They accuse anyone who complain of being militant atheists.

It's blatant, it's obvious, it's not working.
Which is more likely? All of these threads appearing at once out of coincidence? Against the laws of chance and probability, or some summerfag reasoning that he can get away with shitposting by hiding behind the bible and complaining of r/athiesm and intolerance whenever someone calls him out on it.

>>3763430
But anon, atheistic intolerance IS widespread in these waters of the internet.
You seem to think that 4chan is populated by a different ilk than r/atheism. It's not.

>>3763448
We have our r/atheist elements, but we've been doing really well keeping them in check. But that doesn't mean we can cater to the other side. We don't want any part of that flamewar here.

Imagine, for example, if someone was using Don Quixote to mess with the board, suddenly every day there would be new Don Quixote threads,
Threads that weren't about Don Quixote would be hit with Don Quixote posts, and when anyone complained, they would get hit with a barrage of "how dare you complain about Don Quixote, it's a masterpiece"

We can't let the quality of the work give people license to use it to derail the board.

Also...Don Quixote would be a good book to choose to get stuck reading the rest of your life.

>>3763383
>>3763401
Then said Great-heart to Mr. Valiant-for-truth, Thou hast worthily behaved thyself; let me see thy sword; so he shewed it him.

When he had taken it in his hand, and looked thereon a while, he said, Ha! It is a right Jerusalem blade.

Valiant: It is so. Let a man have one of these blades, with a hand to wield it, and skill to use it, and he may venture upon an Angel with it. He need not fear its holdings, if he can but tell how to lay on. Its edges will never blunt. It will cut flesh, and bones, and soul, and spirit and all.

>>3763460
...and your point is?
I read Pilgrim's Progress before I read the bible.
It didn't suffer for lack of source material. Everyone, (or at lest everyone in Western Society) is already familiar enough with the source material from indirect contact. In fact most people know the bible from its adaptations.

facebook

HA!

>>3763472
>...and your point is?

That the Bible is not merely a work of literature. I would disagree that most people are familiar with it on any meaningful level.

>>3763477
Well the complete annotated works of Shakespeare aren't just any work of literature either, but we can agree to disagree.

Nevertheless, only poor adaptations of its material need the material there to provide them with meaning. Take away the bible and Dante's inferno will still be a poetic masterpiece

That's all I'm saying.

Nobody's mentioned the Illiad or the Odyssey?

come on /lit, don't be like that.

>>3763521

You can only read it so much dude.

how is it enforced? Is it like you go to read any other book and the words transmute into the same book you've already chosen?

For example if you chose Moby Dick and you go to read Infinite Jest, it just starts out "Call me ishmael..."