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Stimulating, allusive, elusive. Not really the Bible and literature, but the Bible as a unified literary product. Yes the editors and writers of the Bible spanned centuries and their are tensions between their ideas and programs. But the Bible can be read as a whole and that is what the religious have always done: it's important meaning for religion and art arises from a unified view. Of course, for history one has to treat the Bible with great caution.
It is one of those books that I find I can read again and again. Well I re-read it when I'm too weary to read anything new.
There are interesting parallels in science to Frye's exposition of literary advance: metaphorical writing corresponds to mythical thinking, metonymic writing to a priori theory or natural myth science, descriptive writing to modern science with balanced theory and experiment.