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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

Prodigal son 放蕩息子 (ルカによる福音書 15:11)

絵の説明:回帰

聖書節

そして、彼はそこをたち、父親のもとに行った。ところが、まだ遠く離れていたのに、父親は息子を見つけて、憐れに思い、走り寄って首を抱き、接吻した。(ルカ15:20)

意味

放蕩息子は、わがまました人を指します。放蕩息子の帰還は、より良い生き方への回帰です。

起源と適用

ルカの福音書の中で,イエスは放蕩息子についてたとえ話をしました。放蕩息子はは家を離れている間に父親から与えられたすべてのお金を使っってしまいました。しかし、家に帰ると、父親は思いやりに満ちあふれて息子に駆け寄り、腕をまわして抱きかかえ、口付けしました。。父は息子がしたことを許し、大ごちそうで息子のの帰りを祝いさえしたのです。

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