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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

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페르시아어 “별”에서 유래되었습니다. 에스더는 페르시안 왕궁의 유대인 여왕이 였습니다. 그녀는 구약성경에 멸망 당할 유대인 사람들을 구하기 위해 페르시아 왕에게 매우 큰 영향을 미쳤기 때문에 여걸로써 묘사되었습니다. 그녀의 깊은 신앙심과, 용기 그리고 애국심은 높이 평가 받았습니다. 구약성경의 에스더는 그녀의 이름을 따라 지어졌습니다. 왕에게 그녀가 간청한 것과 연관된 유명한 성경구절이 있습니다. “네가 왕후의 자리를 얻은 것이 이때를 위함이 아닌지 누가 알겠느냐?”

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