Damascus road experience ダマスコの道での経験 (使徒言行録 9:18)

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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

Damascus road experience ダマスコの道での経験 (使徒言行録 9:18)

絵の説明：ダマスカスへの道にいるポール

絵の著作権：V.ギルバート、アライルF.ビアーズ

聖書節

するとただちに、サウロの目からうろこのような物が落ちて、目が見えるようになった。彼は立ち上がってバプテスマをうけた。

意味

現代の語法では、ダマスコの道の経験や改宗は政治観の変化、キャリアの転換や別の宗教への改宗などの重要な問題における突然の変化に参考とされています。

起源と適用

キリストの使徒パウロはローマの地に生まれました。パウロはイエスの弟子達を迫害してきたパリサイ人でした。神はパウロが現在のシリアの首都であるダマスコへ向かう途中に輝く光に包まれ彼の前に現れ示ました。パウロはその強い光を見たために３日間盲目となり、神からパウロのために祈る事を使わされたアナニアという名前の弟子と出会うまで続きました。その後パウロは改宗しイエスについて歩む事になりました。

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