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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

Promised land 約束の地 (へブライ人へ手紙 11:9)

聖書節

信仰によって、アブラハムは他国に宿るようにして約束の地に住み、同じ約束されたものを共に受け継ぐ者であるイサク、ヤコブと一緒に幕屋に住みました。(へブル人へ手紙 11:9)

意味

今日、「約束の地」は、多くの資源に恵まれた場所を広く意味するようになりました。。「乳と蜜の流れる地」も同じ意味で使われます。

起源と適用

アブラハムは信仰の父として知られている。神への信仰のために、神は彼に富、子供、そしてエジプトの川からユーフラテス川、すなわち現代のイスラエルへの土地で彼を祝福した。

アメリカのテレビ司会者オプラ・ウィンフリーは、カリフォルニアの42エーカーの家を「約束の地」と呼んでいる。

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