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"If he
tells me that something in a Gospel is legend or romance, I want to know how many
legends and romances he has read, how well his palate is trained in detecting them by
the flavor."
ל Legends in the Bible?--C.S. Lewis.
Mr. Jacobs in
First Things, quotes C.S. Lewis to the effect that a biblical scholar who has not
also read and appreciated legends and romances is not going to be able to tell which
parts of the Bible are legends and romances, and, indeed, is likely to lack the breadth
to be able to interpret the Bible well at all, even as an unbelieving anthropologist.
..."a scholar whose literary experiences of
texts lack any standard of comparison such as can only grow from a wide and deep and
genial experience of literature in general"
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