The texts of the Bible form a seamless fabric, although made of infinite seams. It is a warp of threads and pieces from a wide variety of backgrounds, which left numerous loose ends from which exegetes and writers keep pulling to discover new connections and hidden meanings. The Bible elaborated archetypes of the ancient literatures of Mesopotamia and Egypt, came into contact with Persian and Hellenistic cultures and, translated into ancient and modern languages, has helped to create a cultural identity both globalizing and particularist, more diversified than the classic Greco-Latin. The Bible is both a closed canon and an unfinished book, open to new rewrites and recreations from the Medieval to the present day. It is a religious and profane work; an inescapable "death stone" in which their own and strangers keep stumbling.