The lion and the lamb should lie down togetherライオンと子羊は一緒に横たわるはずです (イザヤ書 11:6)

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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

The lion and the lamb should lie down togetherライオンと子羊は一緒に横たわるはずです (イザヤ書 11:6)

聖書節

狼は小羊と共に宿り／豹は子山羊と共に伏す。子牛は若獅子と共に育ち／小さい子供がそれらを導く。 (イザヤ書11:6)

意味

上記はキリストの再臨を告げる預言です。オオカミは子羊を捕食しますが、キリストが将来支配するようになったときには、仲良く横たわるようになるというのです。。このオオカミと子羊のコンビは次第にライオンと子羊というより人気のある言葉に派生していきました。人々がライオンと子羊が一緒に横たわっていると話すときは平和と調和の時代のことを言っているのです。

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