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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

Christopher

Usage: English

Pronounced: KRIS-tə-fər

ギリシャ語「Christos」(「Chris,油注がれた者」を意味する)、「phero」(「運ぶ」または「負う」を意味する)から生じている。この名前は、初期のクリスチャンたちが心にキリストを持つ誓いを表すために隠喩的に使われた。後の中世では、旅人の後継者で、若いころのイエスを抱いて川を渡ったというクリストファと呼ばれる男の伝説がある。(?)

クリストファという名前を持つ有名な人物は、セントポール大聖堂など、ロンドンの多くの知られている教会を建築したイギリス人、建築家のChristopher Wren, また、アメリカ大陸を発見したジェノバのコロンブスなどである。

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