Drop in the bucket 手おけに落とす (イザヤ書 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

Drop in the bucket 手おけに落とす (イザヤ書 40:15)

聖書節

見よ、国々はておけの一しずく、はかりの上のごみのようにみなされる。

起源と適用

ヒゼキアが王の時代、イザヤはイスラエルの南にあるユダの預言者でした。ヒゼキア王の宮殿は銀、金、香料、高価な油、そして武器庫などの財と宝に溢れていた。イザヤはバビロンの王が彼の治世をう襲い宮殿にあるこれらすべての財宝がバビロンへ運び去られる日が来る、と予言しました。国が持つものは全能の神と比べれば手おけの一滴にすぎず、神はすべて知っておられすべてを包括しています。

例

奨学金生制度はその授業料に比べればと手おけの一滴の様に少ない。

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