Bethany 伯大尼

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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

Bethany 伯大尼

圖片說明： Mary of Bethany anointing Jesus
圖片版權： V. Gilbert and Arlisle F. Beers

聖經經文

馬太福音21:17

意思

起源於希伯來，意思是“無花果之家”。新約裡記載，伯大尼是位於橄欖山麓的小村莊，離耶路撒冷約兩里之遙。馬大、馬利亞、和她們的弟弟拉撒路居於此地，主耶穌曾在此處使拉撒路復活，並且醫治了患痲瘋的西門。西門在家中為主和他的門徒擺設筵席，愛主至深的馬利亞在筵席中將至貴的真哪噠香膏澆在主耶穌頭上，成就了永遠的美事。

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Bethany Jesus Lazarus Martha Mary Mount of Olives perfume

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