Reddit mentions of The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

Northrop Frye's The Great Code: The Bible and Literature is probably what you want.

The other commenter mentions Bloom, and he's also fair game. His controversy is largely due to his petulance at every major development in literary studies since he graduated college, as well as his over-compensations in the face of his critics. But if you ignore his straw men and his defensive posturing, he does have a deep knowledge of canonical European literature.

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Code-Bible-Literature/dp/0156027801/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1478045750&sr=8-2&keywords=northrop+frye

I would suggest Northrope Frye's excellent book The Great Code: The Bible and Literature.

Frye was a renowned scholar who was at the forefront of modern literary criticism. His book "Fearful Symetry" on Blake is a masterpiece.

I have read most of the bible a number of times and I find that if you are to be a scholar in the modern world - you really have to read it. There are too many biblical references that pop up in cultural dialogue.

I had a funny story of going to see *Raiders of the Lost Ark" with a friend. She enjoyed the movie, however afterwards she had to question me about the ark and what it meant. She had not been brought up in a religious household so all the biblical references in the film went right over her head.

The thing about the bible - especially if you have really good translations is that it is a very interesting read from an historical and literary angle.

Owen Barfield (Poetic Diction) and Northrop Frye (The Great Code) to name a couple, and I'm sure there are many more.

Here are two books by Dr. Frye, the world's leading scholar of the bible as literature.

Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture

The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

Check out The People of Ancient Isreal by J. Kenneth Kuntz and The Great Code by Northrop Frye