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: Godfrey Kneller’s 1689 portrait of Isaac Newton 그림 저작권: http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/art/portrait.html
성경구절
창세기 17:19
뜻
“그가 웃을 것이다”란 의미인 히브리어 יִצְחָק (Yitzchaq)에서 유래되었습니다. 구약성경에서 아브라함이 100세 일 때 그리고 사라가 90세 일 때 이삭은 태어났습니다. 하나님의 전령들이 그녀에게 그녀의 많은 나이에 상관없이 그녀가 임신을 할 것이라고 말할 때 그녀가 웃습니다. 이때문에 이삭이란 이름이 지어졌습니다. 창세기에 하나님은 이삭을 제물로 바치라고 명령하심으로 아브라함의 믿음을 시험합니다. 아브라함은 순종했고 아브라함이 이삭에게 칼을 내리치려는 그 순간 하나님의 천사가 막았습니다. 이삭이 40세 때 리브가와 결혼했고, 20년 후에 쌍둥이인 에서와 야곱이 태어납니다. 영국인 물리학자 “Isaac Newton”은 동명으로 유명합니다. 모든 것이 장엄하게 창조되기 전에 하나님의 존재에 대해 부인하지 않았던 견해를 그는 가졌습니다.
A lot of phrases, such as "two-edged sword" and " an eye for an eye", are taken from the English Bible. Learning the stories behind these idioms is fun, and can help boost your vocabulary. Click here to find out now!
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