“The Bible is the most brutally honest book that does not whitewash or sugarcoat history.”
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016
“The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.”
George Saintsbury: The Memorial Volume (London: Methuen, 1946) p. 120.
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“To me, the Bible is a book. Important, no doubt, but a book.”
José Saramago (1922–2010) Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
Interview to the newspaper "O Globo", 2009.
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
Steven Nadler, A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011)
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Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
Source: On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843), p. 102
“The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature,”
Frederic G. Kenyon (1863–1952) British palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar
Source: The Story Of The Bible, Chapter I, The Bible And Recent Discoveries, p. 4
Context: The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import; and thanks to the succession of discoveries which have been made of late years, we know more about it than of the history of any other ancient book in the world.
“The Bible is God's great lesson book.”
Ellen G. White book Christ's Object Lessons
Source: Christ's Object Lessons (1900), Ch. 8, p. 107
“This book has neither the virtue of irony nor deserves the sympathy reserved for the truly mad.”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
From the third book, "The Book of the Idiot"
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