I haven't been managing to sleep properly these past days. It's troublesome, though enough about me.
It can’t be denied that the Bible is a collection of works of great literature of the English language. Though it's quite irrelevant to the Bible's literary merit whether the reader be atheist or not, I must state, I am indeed atheist and believe the Bible to be a work of literature, I am careful with my phrasing, literature, not fiction, that one must regard similarly to Homeric epics. And to view it religiously and to view it as literature are beliefs infact that are quite beautifully amicable.
In his lecture Bible Backgrounds and English Literature, Dr. Adam Walker elaborates upon the subject.
Let’s conclude with the famous passage of the short and sweet Book of Ruth; read it out loud and listen carefully to how the pretty words roll off your tongue.
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my god.