I can certainly see your point,
and would agree that some knowledge of the Bbile would help put things in context, which would be a good thing.
I'm not up to speed on the latest RS curriculum, but I'd certainly hope it was more informative than what I was subjected to (mostly copying pictures out of an illustrated book of Bible stories, if memory serves).
That said, I think that the Bible, like many other works of literature, is best discovered for yourself (few, if any, works deserve a defacto place on the curriculum (yes, Shakespear, I'm looking at you)), and I'd like to think that, if an allusion to the Bibe was present in a work of literature, or if Christian thinking was influential on a particular period of history, the teacher of that subject would make his/her pupils aware of this.

Gosh, what a grown up discussion, this is - have I stumbled onto the wrong website?
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