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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

Jacob ジェイコブ

意味:この名前はへブル語のヤコブיַעֲקֹב (Ya’aqov),から来ていて、意味は「代替者」「かかとをつかむ者」ということです。ヤコブはイサクとリベカの息子でした。生まれたとき、双子の兄エサウのかかとをつかんだまま、リベカの胎を出てきたのでこの名前を付けられました。

旧約聖書が記しているように、ヤコブはエサウに、レンズ豆(レンティル)のスープを与える代わりに長子の特権を交換で手に入れました。彼はまたイサクが祝福を与えるときにエサウのふりをしてイサクからの祝福を得ました。そこでまた、彼は名のとおり「代替者」を地で行くこととなったのです。

天使と組み打ちをした結果、神は彼の名前をイスラエルと改名しました。彼が神とその従者に挑んで勝ちを得たからです。その後、彼の十二人の息子は、イスラエル十二部族となりました。

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