Jewish Old Testament#
Summary#
Nietzsche extols the Jewish Old Testament as a book of divine justice containing men, things, and sayings on such an immense scale that Greek and Indian literature have nothing comparable. He regards it as stupendous remains of what man was formerly, before which one stands with fear and reverence, and considers the taste for the Old Testament a touchstone distinguishing “great” from “small” spirits. Binding this work with the New Testament into a single Bible he calls the greatest audacity and “sin against the Spirit” that literary Europe has upon its conscience.