Aquila 亞居拉

slider

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

slider

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

slider

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

slider

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

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

slider

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

slider

...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

slider

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

slider

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

Aquila 亞居拉

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

聖經經文

羅馬書16:3

意思

它是古羅馬的名字，拉丁文中意思是“古老的”。新約中，亞居拉是百基拉的丈夫。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。

性別

男

例句

Keywords

Aquila Paul Prisca Priscilla

Related Information

NIV official site
Chinese Bible (???)

< Previous Next >

Aquila 亞居拉

聖經經文

意思

性別

例句

Keywords

Related Information

Search idiom or name

FIND THE ORIGIN OF IDIOMS

From A-Z

Find By Book In The Bible

What's in a name?

Society for English Learning Through Biblical Literature

About Us

Resources