Behemoth ベヘモット (ヨブ記 40:15)

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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

Behemoth ベヘモット (ヨブ記 40:15)

絵の説明：像

絵の著作権：V.ギルバート、アライルF.ビアーズ

聖書節： 主はヨブに仰せられた。さあ、河馬を見よ。これはあなたと並べてわたしが造ったもの、牛のように草を食らう。

意味：“ベヘモットとは巨大な生き物または物。

起源と適用：“ヨブ記の中に出てくる「ベヘモット」はカバ、もしくは像だと信じられている。神はヨブの身に起こる苦難の答えとしてベヘモットを比喩的な対象物として使われた。もし人が神が創った巨大な獣を支配する事ができないで、人が神に対抗する事ができようか？

例：多くの人はもしアメリカ金融市場を惨害させたアルマゲドン（金融危機の波紋）が香港にも広がり、ベヘモット「香港上海銀行」を屈服させたらどうして良いのか分からない様だ。(２００９年３月１１日、香港スタンダード）

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