There is a time for everything 凡事都有定期，天下萬務都有定時。”（傳道書 3：1-8）

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

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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

There is a time for everything 凡事都有定期，天下萬務都有定時。”（傳道書 3：1-8）

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There is a time for everything, 即凡事皆有定期的意思。

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傳道書是一本可以引導我們思考人生的書，學者一般認為此書由所羅門王所寫。作者相信上帝在以有限的時間控制著萬物。他在這些優美的章節中寫道：“凡事都有定期，天下萬務都有定時：生有時，死有時；栽種有時，拔出所栽種的也有時；殺戮有時，醫治有時；拆毀有時，建造有時；哭有時，笑有時；哀慟有時，跳舞有時；拋擲石頭有時，堆聚石頭有時；懷抱有時，不懷抱有時；尋找有時，失落有時；保守有時，舍棄有時；撕裂有時，縫補有時；靜默有時，言語有時；喜愛有時，憎恨有時；爭戰有時，和好有時。” 傳道書的作者總結道：“神必審判義人和惡人，因為在那里，各樣事物，一切工作，都有定時。”

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There is a time for everything 凡事都有定期，天下萬務都有定時。”（傳道書 3：1-8）

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