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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

Feet of clay 美中不足(但以理2:33)

图片说明: Daniel interprets the king’s dream
图片版权: V. Gilbert and Arlisle F. Beers

圣经经文

“…its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay.” (Daniel 2:33) “Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom” (Daniel 2:34) “腿是铁的,脚是半铁半泥的。”(但以理2:33) “那脚指头,既是半铁半泥,那国也必半强半弱 。”(但以理2:42)

意思

如果某人有feet of clay,表示他们有一些美中不足的地方。

来源及应用

但以理是一位先知,长于解梦,使他名扬整个巴比伦国度。有一次巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒梦见了一座大像,这像有着金色的头颅和半泥半铁的双脚。但以理预言「半泥半铁」标志着另一个国家的诞生,而且那个国家必将半强(如铁)和半弱(如泥)。及后证实此国便是后来兴起的罗马帝国,她分裂为十个小国,国力有强有弱。

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clay    Daniel    dream    weakness   

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