Out of the mouths of babes 赤ちゃんの口から (詩篇 8:1-2)

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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

Out of the mouths of babes 赤ちゃんの口から (詩篇 8:1-2)

絵の説明：赤ちゃん

聖書節

主よ、わたしたちの主よ／あなたの御名は、いかに力強く／全地に満ちていることでしょう。天に輝くあなたの威光をたたえます（詩篇８：２）

意味

このごろでは、赤ん坊の口からにある言葉は、それらの知恵によってあなたを驚かせる子供から言葉である。

起源と適用

このことわざはマタイの福音書に2回出てきます。。マタイ２１：１６で、イエスは、聖書の前に出てきた詩篇8章の思索の言葉を引用しました。ました。主のために栄光と賛美を唱えたのは子供たちですが、賢くて、頭が良かっただったわけではありませんでした。

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