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Re:Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect? by emodendroket on Friday May 11, 2018 @11:40PM (#17052367)
It's hard for me to see why this logic points to the Bible and not the Odyssey or the Iliad, about which we could say much the same things (especially the Iliad, which shows clear marks of some parts of the story being much older than others). Or frankly any very old text with pre-literary roots.

I am certainly pro-Bible, but in the terms you're putting it here it doesn't seem especially compelling.

Re:Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect? by lambdaphagy on Saturday May 12, 2018 @11:34PM (#17057249)
It doesn't uniquely pick out the Bible, except to the extent that Western civilization was shaped far more thoroughly by the Bible than by Homer.