SELBL fellowship and prayer meeting (22 Feb 2010, Monday, 7:30pm)

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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

SELBL fellowship and prayer meeting (22 Feb 2010, Monday, 7:30pm)

The Chinese New Year is around the corner! As we look forward to usher in the Year of the Tiger, we should look forward to new plans and calling to be instilled by God in the new year.

In our coming fellowship, we are most glad to have invited a very experienced secondary school English teacher who will share with us how she reached out to students on the Mainland in her capacity as a University English teacher during her 1-year mission trip.

The time and date are as follows:

Date: 22 Feb (Mon)
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Venue: 4/F Sen Lok Church, 324 Shau Kei Wan Road, Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong (Shau Kei Wan Exit A)
Website of Sen Lok Church: www.senlok.com

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