A book that is the defining document of western civilization. The book of books in the West, which used to be called Christendom. Incidentally, as Barbara Tuchman pointed out, was warf and woof to the English settlers of New England, so much so that they adopted the ancient Hebrews as their ancestors rather than the ancient Angles and Saxons. Adair's History of the American Indians even sought to find the origin of the Indian languages in Hebrew. We know that many were convinced that they were remnants of the "Lost Tribes of Israel. " This is but one indication of how much the Bible was in the minds of the early Americans.
Notwithstanding the phraseology in your post, it's still - a book.