Bethany 伯大尼

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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

Bethany 伯大尼

图片说明： Mary of Bethany anointing Jesus
图片版权： V. Gilbert and Arlisle F. Beers

圣经经文

马太福音21:17

意思

起源于希伯来，意思是“无花果之家”。新约里记载，伯大尼是位于橄榄山麓的小村庄，离耶路撒冷约两里之遥。马大、马利亚、和她们的弟弟拉撒路居于此地，主耶稣曾在此处使拉撒路复活，并且医治了患麻疯的西门。西门在家中为主和他的门徒摆设筵席，爱主至深的马利亚在筵席中将至贵的真哪哒香膏浇在主耶稣头上，成就了永远的美事。

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