탕자 (누가복음 15:11)

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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

탕자 (누가복음 15:11)

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탕자는 고집이 세고 다루기 힘든 사람을 의미합니다. 돌아온 탕자란 더 나은 삶을 위해 돌아왔다는 것을 뜻합니다.

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누가복음에서 예수님은 탕자에 관한 비유를 말씀하셨습니다. 그는 집에서 나간 후, 아버지에게 받은 돈을 모두 써버렸습니다. 그런데 그 탕자가 다시 집으로 돌아갔을 때, 그 아버지는 깊은 연민을 가지고 달려 나와 아들을 끌어 안고 입을 맞추어 환영해 주었습니다. 아버지는 아들이 지난날에 저질렀던 일들을 용서했고, 아들이 돌아온 것을 환영하는 축제를 열기까지 했습니다.

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