Jonathan 約拿單

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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

Jonathan 約拿單

圖片說明： Jonathan (right) and David
圖片版權： V. Gilbert and Arlisle F. Beers

聖經經文

撒母耳記上13：2

意思

此名源於希伯來文יְהוֹנָתָן(Yehonatan)（縮寫為יוֹנָתָן (Yonatan)），意思為“上帝的給予”或者“上帝的禮物”。舊約《撒母耳記》形容他為掃羅的大兒子，大衛最好的朋友。儘管掃羅很妒忌大衛，約拿單仍然是大衛的好朋友，幫助他躲藏脫險。大衛得知約拿單在反抗非利士人的戰役中被殺害後感到悲痛不已，大衛形容他們之間的兄弟之愛超越了對女性的愛。

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男

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