a Romantic Bible

"...Friedrich Schlegel spoke at times of creating a 'new Bible.' The early Romantics showed little interest in the narratives or stories of the actual Bible, which they rejected on both aesthetic and philosophical grounds. In 'Christianity or Europe?' Novalis expressed an aversion to the Bible 'philology' of contemporary Protestantism, while Schleiermacher described the Bible as a 'mausoleum of religion'. What Friedrich Schlegel had in mind was rather a 'new gospel' that Lessing had invoked two decades earlier in 'The Education of the Human Race' (1780)."

-- The Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche, George S. Williamson, 2004, p. 55.