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
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
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
...there is truth in the remark. "without Tyndale[Bible translator], no Shakespeare"...
Prof. David Daniell, University College London
from The Bible in English
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
...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
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
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
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“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.” (Matthew 5:13) “你們是世上的鹽。鹽若失了味，怎能叫它再鹹呢？以後無用，不過丟在外面，被人踐踏了。” (馬太福音5：13)
社會棟梁。
這個短語來自耶穌的「登山寶訓」。鹽在圣經中有其特殊的意義。它是一種添味的佐料，能調和食物的口感，故聖經用「鹽」來比喻和諧。耶穌說：「鹽本是好的，若失了味，可用什麼叫它再咸呢？你們里頭應當有鹽，彼此和睦。」（馬克福音9：50） 自從聖經翻譯家威克里夫的英譯本里出現了「salt of the earth」之后，這個短語便植入西方文學中。《坎特伯利故事集》的作者George Chaucer和George Bernard Shaw都在他們的文學作品里引用了這個習語。滾石樂隊用一首名為「salt of the earth」的歌頌揚平民英雄。
NIV official site
Chinese Bible (???)
英語中許多習語都源於聖經,比如"two edged sword(雙刃劍)","an eye for an eye(以眼還眼)",學習這些成語故事不但有趣,而且還能擴大你的詞彙量,點擊這裡學習更多的成語故事吧
