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Originally Posted by loramin
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That is simply not true. We read the epic of Gilgamesh because it's the earliest known form of literature. It has nothing to do with the quality of the text, and everything to do with that text being preserved while other texts weren't.
In short, if The Epic of Bob had survived from before Gilgamesh, we'd be discussing it instead in literature classes. And it's the same thing with the bible: it's only survived for so long because it's a religious text of the cultural group that happened to win out ... not because it's good literature.
There are countless other texts that are odes to Osiris, or Dionysus, or whatever other god, all from the same time as the bible ... that no one reads today, even though they're just as good from a literary perspective.
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It's factually true, even if you don't like it. The text survived for a reason. If people didn't like it, they wouldn't have preserved it.