Lillian 릴리안

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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

Lillian 릴리안

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이 이름은 성경에 기록되어 있지는 않습니다. 아마도 “약속의 하나님”의 뜻을 지닌 히브리어 אֱלִישֶׁבַע (‘Elisheva’)에서 나온 그리스어 Ελισαβετ (Elisabet)에서 유래된 “엘리자베스”(출애굽기 6:23; 누가복음 1:5)의 축소된 이름인 듯 합니다. 구약성경에 아론의 아내의 이름은 엘리세밧이였고, 신약성경에 엘리자베스는 마리아의 친척이자 세례요한의 어머니였습니다. 요즘 “릴리안”은 “릴리”와 연관된 이름이라고 흔히 여겨지고 있습니다.

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