Treating the Bible as Literature

The Bible is more than literature it's something other than literature but you can treat it as literature. The characters are all complex including the character of God himself is complex and sophisticated It's paradoxical and incomprehensible at times but I think good literature is like that. New knowledge doesn't just leap from completely unknown to completely articulated in one move that isn't how it happens it has to pass through stages of analysis before it becomes articulable. In true art people have to be contending with something they don't understand and what they do is they make it more understandable.