Biblical
Dostoevsky’s intellectual acuity can be understood as a convergence of influences, both biblical/religious and secular. Dostoevsky’s exposure to a wide array of literary and religious texts allowed for a broadened worldview. It is argued within Joseph Frank’s remarkable biography on the life of Dostoevsky that male children of landed or service aristocracy were unconcerned with Orthodox Christianity. For Dostoevsky, he was raised in a pious family, though the religious fervor did not negate intellectual avidity. Dostoevsky encountered stories from the old and new testament from scriptures such as Adam and Eve in Paradise, The Flood, The Raising of Lazarus and more [1] . The religious texts that Dostoevsky encountered, as he wrote to his wife, Anya, regarding the Book of Job, “this book is one of the first in my life which made an impression on me…[2] ”