자만하다가는 낭패보기 쉽다. (잠언 16:18-19)

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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
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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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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

자만하다가는 낭패보기 쉽다. (잠언 16:18-19)

성경구절

“교만은 패망의 선봉이요 거만한 마음은 넘어짐의 앞잡이니라. 겸손한 자와 함께 하여 마음을 낮추는 것이 교만한 자와 함께 하여 탈취물을 나누는 것보다 나으니라.” (잠언 16:18-19)

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자만은 실패를 부릅니다.

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우리는 이전까지의 역사, 과거를 통해, 교만은 곧 실패로 가는 지름길이라는 것을 알고 있습니다. 성경에서, 블레셋 군과의 전쟁에서 처참히 패배했던 사울 왕의 경우처럼 자신의 길을 고집했던 왕들은 모두 실패와 파멸의 길로 들어섰습니다. 이 표현은 과거에서 지금까지 전해져 왔습니다.

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