That's a good question. To be a good Jew or Christian, is it your duty not only to be familiar with the Bible (your community's version of, I mean), but also to love it and enjoy it in an aesthetic sense? On the one hand, that would put a bit of a strain on the people told to enjoy the lengthy lists of prescriptions on all sorts of petty matters in the first five books (for instance); on the other, unless you enjoy the writings in the first place, how can they affect you at all? And Psalm 119 tells us that some people actually enjoyed the study of the Jewish law for its own sake.
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