gwern comments on Open Thread: October 2009

[gwern]

And just to show that the Bible-as-literature isn’t me, here’s Richard Dawkins:

“Not entirely, sir. Parts of holy writ have great poetic merit, especially in the English translation known as the King James, or Authorized version of 1611. The cadences of the Book of Ecclesiastes and some of the prophets have seldom been surpassed, sir.”