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In the Old Testament stories, … the sublime influence of God here reaches so deeply into the everyday that the two realms of the sublime and the everyday are not only actually unseparated but basically inseparable.

— Erich Auerbach Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946)

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