olive branch 橄欖枝 (創世記8:11)

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The Bible has been the most influential text in all of Western culture. It's difficult to understand medieval or early modern or much of modern literature without knowing it...

Prof. Barbara Newman, Northwestern University
from 2006 Bible Literary project

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It's not that it's impossible to read some writers without a Biblical background, but that you would miss a whole dimension to their work.

Prof. Steven Goldsmith, University of California at Berkeley
from 2006 Bible Literary Project

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I can only say that if a student doesn't know any Bible literature, he or she will simply not understand whole elements of Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth

Prof. Robert Kiely, Harvard University
from 2006 Bible Literary Project

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...there is truth in the remark. "without Tyndale[Bible translator], no Shakespeare"...

Prof. David Daniell, University College London
from The Bible in English

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You can't really study Western literature intelligently or coherently without starting with the Bible.

Prof. Gerald L. Bruns, University of Notre Dame
from 2006 Bible Literary Project

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...a familiar understanding of Christian doctrine in historical perspective thus contributes to a fuller appreciation of Shakespeare's art, but Shakespeare's art

Prof. Roland M. Frye
from Shakespeare and the Christian Doctrine

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In English tradition and also for an American tradition begun by Puritan writers, a knowledge of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament is even more crucial than classical references.

Prof. Ulrich Knoefplmacher, Princeton University
from 2006 Bible Literary Project

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There is no book more important for our culture than the Bible, and it is fundametal to the study of English literature and language.

Prof. David Jasper and Prof. Stephen Prickett
from the Bible and literature

olive branch 橄欖枝 (創世記8:11)

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橄欖枝成為了和平與復和的標志。

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在挪亞的時代，上帝降下了一場持續了四十天的大洪水摧毀了所有沒有和挪亞一起躲進方舟中的生靈。又過了一百五十天，大水仍沒有退去。挪亞先是放出了一只烏鴉去試探水位的高低。烏鴉飛來飛去也找不到一根落腳的樹枝。接著諾亞又放出了一只鴿子，鴿子同樣找不到一根落腳的樹枝。七天后，挪亞再一次放出鴿子，這次鴿子帶回了橄欖枝。這是個家喻戶曉的故事，橄欖枝后來亦成為了和平與復和的標志。因為它昭示著洪水之后，上帝與人類修復關系。在瑞典的諾貝爾獎博物館中，諾貝爾和平獎的標志就以橄欖枝代表。

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