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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

After one’s own heart 御心に適う (サムエル記I 13:14)

挿絵:サムエルに聖油で清められるダビデ

聖書の一節:主は御心に適う人を求めて、その人をご自分の民の指導者として立てられる。

      (サムエル記上13章14節)

意味:あなたの心に適う人は、あなたと同じように考える。

由来と応用:サウル王はイスラエルの王となった時わずか30歳であった。サウルは、主に選ばれた預言者サムエルによって油を注がれたが、必ずしも主のお命じになったことを守らないことがあり、むしろ時によって自分自身の判断において行動しようとした。

これを見て、サムエルはサウルを非難し言った。「主は御心に適う誰かほかの人を選ばれて、その人をイスラエルの指導者とした。」その人がイスラエル史の中でも有名なダビデ王であった。

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