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
그림설명: David and Goliath by Caravaggio (1600; Oil on canvas; Prado, Madrid) 그림 저작권: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/about/license.html
성경구절
사무엘상 16:1
뜻
이 이름은 히브리어 דוד (라틴어로 “dvd” 쓰는)에서 기원되었습니다. 구약성경에 다윗은 이스라엘의 두 번째 왕이자 위대한 왕이 였습니다. 그는 의로운 왕으로 여겨졌으며, 작은 돌멩이 하나로 팔레스타인의 큰 거인 골리앗을 무찔렀던 칭찬받던 용사였고, 수 많은 시편의 시들을 썼다고 알려진 시인이었습니다. 비록 다윗이 매우 존경받는 삶을 살았지만, 그의 삶에는 실수들도 있었습니다. 히타이트족의 장군우리아의 아내인 밧세바의 아름다움에 매료되어, 다윗은 그의 간통을 숨기기 위해 우리아를 전쟁터로 보내고 우리아가 죽은 후 밧세바와 결혼합니다. 그러나 이후에 다윗은 나단 선지자가 그의 죄에 대해 일깨워 주었을 때 회개했습니다. 예수님은 다윗의 혈통에서 나온 자손이라고 여겨집니다.
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