Why are religious texts ("The" Bible, "The" Torah, "The" Qu'ran) preceded by "The"?

Solution 1:

That is partly because Bradbury didn't name the book, The Fahrenheit 451. He did, however, name other books The Martian Chronicles, The Halloween Tree, The Illustrated Man, etc.

There are many "bibles" (authoritative books). Bible comes from the Greek biblia ‘books', from biblion ‘book’. Refering to it as The Bible sets it apart from other (authoritative) books.

It is simple English grammar, not professional-level. When you're talking about a specific thing, you use the definite article the: The White House, The Oval Office, The Grand Canyon. When you're referring to a non-specific thing, you use the indefinite article a: a white house, a large office, a small canyon in Pennsylvania.

Not to say that articles aren't sometimes confusing; they are. You know how to use them properly because you've heard them used every day of your life. You know what sounds right and what sounds "off". English learners don't have that advantage. They have to memorize the rules, to which there are some exceptions, such as Times Square and Capitol Hill.

The tallest building in the world is in the United Arab Emirates, in Dubai, and is called The Burj Khalifa, which means "Khalifa Tower".

The movie Alien scared me half to death in 1979. Blade Runner was the best movie I saw in 1982. Lately, director Ridley Scott seems to have lost his footing with movies like Exodus: Gods and Kings. I wonder if The Martian will be any good.

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