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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

James 雅各

圖片說明: The Apostle Saint James the Greater Freeing the Magician Hermogenes, tempera and gold on panel by Fra Angelico (Fra Giovanni da Fiesole), c. 1426–29, Kimbell Art Museum
圖片版權: Kimbell Art Museum

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馬太福音4:21

意思

雅各出自希伯來名字יַעֲקֹב (Ya’aqov),意味著“代替者”。在新約聖經,雅各是耶穌的十二門徒之一,也是使徒約翰的兄弟。他、約翰、和彼得是唯一看到耶穌在他們面前變了形像的三個門徒(詳情見馬太福音17章1節)。 《加拉太書》中,保羅形容他們三人為“教會柱石”。 《馬可福音》中,耶穌給雅各兄弟起名叫半尼其,就是雷子的意思。 (馬可福音3:17)(加拉太書2:9) 雅各出自希伯來名字יַעֲקֹב (Ya’aqov),意味著“代替者”。在新約聖經,雅各是耶穌的十二門徒之一,也是使徒約翰的兄弟。他、約翰、和彼得是唯一看到耶穌在他們面前變了形像的三個門徒(詳情見馬太福音17章1節)。 《加拉太書》中,保羅形容他們三人為“教會柱石”。 《馬可福音》中,耶穌給雅各兄弟起名叫半尼其,就是雷子的意思。 (馬可福音3:17)(加拉太書2:9) 在新約中也有記載,耶穌有一兄弟,其名字為雅各。

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