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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

Exodus出埃及记 (出埃及记 12章第31节)

图片说明: The Israelites were free to leave.
图片版权: V. Gilbert and Arlisle F. Beers

圣经经文

意思

现在我们用“exodus”比喻一大群人离开某地的景象。

来源及应用

以色列人在埃及流放其间过着奴役的生涯。上帝顾念到他们的困境,就让各种瘟疫临到埃及地,藉此向埃及法老王施压,把以色列人释放。但是埃及法老硬著心肠,对以色列人的态度施豪没有任何改变。上帝发怒了,决定向法老施以惩罚,在逾越节期间杀掉每个埃及家庭的头生胎儿。为了把以色列家庭分别出来,上帝要求以色列人家将羊血涂在门框上,这样他们就可以免遭瘟疫。当法老看见每个埃及家庭的头生子女都无一幸免地遭受瘟疫之苦时,他只好容许以色列离开埃及,以换取其子民的安康。最后,以色列人获得了自由,离开了埃及。

例句

An exodus of nurses will not compromise the hospital’s ability to cope with patients, says the health minister. 卫生部长表示,护士的流失潮影响了医院的运作。

Keywords

departure    exodus    leave   

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