Interestingly enough, the common desktop reference guide "The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy" best sums up the Bible's value as a tool of cultural literacy.
Books, historical events and the myths that grow up around them, places, memories and ways of doing things form a common frame of cultural reference that defines a nation.
Philip Fisher, another legend whose Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits is generally considered to be the reference work on growth investing, goes entirely unmentioned.
It was founded on 5 May 1949 by 10 countries and seeks to develop Europe-wide common and democratic principles based on the European Convention on Human Rights and other reference texts.