Assertion: literature | /r/CapableOf | influence western consciousness
Facets:
value: through translation
type: MANNER
value: profoundly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Hebrew culture exerted its greatest literary influence on the West because of the place held by its early writings as the Old Testament of the Christian Bible; and this literature profoundly influenced Western consciousness through translation from about the time of St. Augustine onward into every vernacular language as well as into Latin.