Abigail 亚比该

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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

Abigail 亚比该

图片说明： Abigail presents to David
图片版权： V. Gilbert and Arlisle F. Beers

圣经经文

撒母耳记25：1

意思

亚比该这个名字来源于希伯来圣经人物אֲבִיגָיִל (‘Avigayil)，它的含义是“父亲的喜乐”。旧约圣经上记载：亚比该的丈夫拿八为人刚愎凶恶、以恶报善激怒了耶西的儿子大卫，惹来了杀身之祸。拿八聪明俊美的妻子亚比该得知后带着礼物前去迎见大卫，她說服了大衛不要去報復拿八，因為流血衝突和殘忍的復仇都是不必要的，應該把仇恨交給神去審判。亚比该成功阻止了大卫的复仇計劃。拿八死后，国王大卫便娶了亚比该为他第三任妻子。

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