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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

Change one’s spots 타고난 성질을 바꾸다 (예레미야 13:23)

그림설명: Leopard
그림 저작권: V.

성경구절

“Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.” “구스인이 그의 피부를, 표범이 그의 반점을 변하게 할 수 있느냐 할 수 있을진대 악에 익숙한 너희도 선을 행할 수 있으리라.”

이 idiom은 특별히 부정적인 성향을 가진 사람들이 그 자신의 타고난 성질을 바꿀 수 없다는 의미입니다. “A leopard doesn’t change its spots” 표범이 그의 반점을 변하게 할 수 없다 라는 표현으로도 쓰입니다.

기원과 적용

예레미야는 구약시대의 선지자 였습니다. 그는 예루살렘 사람들에게 그들의 죄를 향해 울부짖으며 경고 했었습니다. 그들의 죄된 본성은 깊게 뿌리내려 있었고, 표범이 그의 반점을 변하게 할 수 없는 것처럼, 변화될 조짐이 전혀 보이지 않았습니다.

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Keywords

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