Elijah 엘리야

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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

Elijah 엘리야

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역대상 17:1

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“나의 하나님은 주님이시다”란 의미인 히브리어 אֱלִיָּהוּ (‘Eliyyahu)에서 기원 되었습니다. 구약성경의 열왕기상과 열왕기 하에, 엘리야는 죽은 자를 살리고 하늘로부터 불을 내렸던 B.C. 9세기의 히브르 선지자였습니다. 그는 회오리 바람에 의해 불 병거를 타고 하늘로 올라갔던 성경에 나오는 유일한 사람입니다. 신약성경 마가복음에 엘리야는 모세와 함께 나타났고 베드로와 야고보 그리고 요한앞에 영광스러운 모습으로 변형되신 예수님과 대화를 나눕니다.

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