Alan Jacobs makes the connection by reading Tim Larsen’s A People of One Book: the Bible and the Victorians:
Tim’s thesis is that in major and often unexpected ways, Victorian culture is built around knowledge of and regular reading of the Bible — and this is true across the theological and atheological spectrum. … Today, it seems to me, there is no such truly common cultural currency. Instead, there is currency shared among small groups of initiates into certain mysteries, often meant to exclude others as much as to include the like-minded. This is what song lyrics and South Park quotes are for, after all.
(Photo: After The Last Supper by Devorah Sperber, made from 20,736 spools of thread.)
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