Priscilla 百基拉

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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

Priscilla 百基拉

圖片說明： Priscilla and Aquila
圖片版權： V. Gilbert and Arlisle F. Beers

聖經經文

使徒行傳18：2

意思

它是古羅馬的名字，是“Prisca”的暱稱，來源於“Priscus”，拉丁文中意思是“古老的”。新約中，百基拉是亞居拉的妻子，是基督徒。他們和使徒保羅一起在哥林多逗留了一段時間，後來坐船到敘利亞。他們倆最終在以弗所與保羅分道揚鑣。在羅馬書16:3-4，保羅問他們安，因這對宣教士夫婦為他的命把自己的生死置之度外。

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Aquila Prisca Priscilla

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