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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

Doubting Thomas 多疑的人(约翰福音 20:24)

图片说明: Doubting Thomas
图片版权: Caravaggio.

圣经经文

意思

多疑的人。

来源及应用

多马是追随耶稣的十二个门徒中的其中一位。当耶稣从死里复活中并出现在他的门徒当中时,多马并没有和他们在一起。因为他对于耶稣的复活表示怀疑,多马对其他门徒说:“我非看見他手上的釘痕 、用指頭探入那釘痕 、又用手探入他的肋旁 、否则我不相信。” 八天以后,当耶稣又一次到来时,多马跟大家在一起。耶稣请多马触摸他的肋旁,不要怀疑,只要信。最后,多马终于相信了。

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Keywords

doubt    Thomas   

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