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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

Doubting Thomas 多疑的人(約翰福音 20:24)

圖片說明: Doubting Thomas
圖片版權: Caravaggio.

聖經經文

意思

多疑的人。

來源及應用

多馬是追隨耶穌的十二個門徒中的其中一位。當耶穌從死里復活中並出現在他的門徒當中時,多馬並沒有和他們在一起。因為他對于耶穌的復活表示懷疑,多馬對其他門徒說:“我非看見他手上的釘痕 、用指頭探入那釘痕 、又用手探入他的肋旁 、否則我不相信。” 八天以后,當耶穌又一次到來時,多馬跟大家在一起。耶穌請多馬觸摸他的肋旁,不要懷疑,只要信。最後,多馬終于相信了。

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Keywords

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