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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

Isaac アイザック、イサク

意味 :  この名前は、へブル語のיִצְחָק (Yitzchaq),「彼は笑う」という意味の名前から採られています。旧約聖書のイサクは、アブラハムとサラ(父母)がそれぞれ100歳、90歳の時に生まれました。イサクがこの名前を与えられた訳は、神の御使いが、年老いているにも関わらずサラは子供を産むでしょう、と告げたとき、サラが笑ったからです。創世記には、神は、アブラハムの信仰を試してイサクをささげなさいと命じた、とあります。アブラハムは神に従いましたが、神の御使いは、アブラハムがイサクを殺すのをもう一歩のところでとどめさせました。

イサクは40歳でリベカと結婚し、その20年後、双子の息子、エサウとヤコブが生まれました。

イギリスの物理学者アイザック・ニュートンは、この名前を持つ有名人です。ニュートンは、すべての被造物の壮大さを考えると神の存在は否定できないと見ていました。

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