Ivory Tower 상아탑 (아가 7:4)

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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

Ivory Tower 상아탑 (아가 7:4)

성경구절

“Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus.” “목은 상아 망대같구나 눈은 헤스본 바드랍빔 문 곁에 있는 연못 같고 코는 다메섹을 향한 레바논 망대같구나.”

뜻

상아탑은 현실로부터 격리되어진 장소나 상황을 나타냅니다.

기원과 적용

이 용어는 현실세계의 필요들로부터 독립하는 것에 흥미를 보이고 개발시키려는 학자들(순수학문을 하는 학자들)을 표현하는데 흔히 쓰입니다. 그러나 이 표현이 어디에서 기원됐는지는 정확하지 않습니다.

예시

Some people viewed universities as ivory towers. 어떤 사람들은 대학교를 상아탑으로써 생각합니다.

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