Joseph 约瑟

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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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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

Joseph 约瑟

图片说明： Joseph sold by his brothers
图片版权： V. Gilbert and Arlisle F. Beers

圣经经文

创世记30：24

意思

此名来自于希伯来文יוֹסֵף (Yosef)，意思是“将增加一个”，在圣经中有几个不同的约瑟。在旧约圣经中，雅各和拉结第十一个孩子出生时，拉结给他取名为约瑟，并说到：“感谢主又为我增添一个男孩。”他雅各的兄長嫉妒他，把他送到了埃及，数年后约瑟卻成为了埃及法老王的宰相。在新约圣经中，使用这个名字的人包括了耶稣的父亲。另一位约瑟是一位富翁，成为耶稣的秘密门徒後贡献了他自己的新墓穴来埋葬耶稣的尸体。

性别

男

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Keywords

add Arimathea Egypt father jealous Jesus Pharoah

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