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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

Lip service リップ・サービス (イザヤ書 29:13)

絵の説明: パリサイ人の祈り
著作権: V. Gilbert and Arlisle F. Beers


聖書節

“そこで主は仰せられた。「この民は口先で近づき、くちびるでわたしをあがめるが、その心はわたしから遠く離れている。彼らがわたしを恐れるのは、人間の命令を教え込まれてのことにすぎない。」”(イザヤ書29:13)

意味


私たちが普段言う「リップ・サービス」とはその人の行動が言動についていってない時のことを意味します。

起源と適用


旧約聖書の時代に、神様は人々が神の名を讃えながらも行動に移さないことを嫌われました。その時の聖職者は聖書についての知識が豊富で、尚かつ信仰において様々な厳しい決め事を決めていました。彼らは神様が言われた様に人々に他人を愛するように言われました。神様は予言者イザヤを通して、「この民は口先で近づき、くちびるでわたしをあがめるが、その心はわたしから遠く離れている。」と失望されていました。

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