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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

Jonathan 요나단

그림설명: Jonathan (right) and David
그림 저작권: V. Gilbert and Arlisle F. Beers

성경구절

사무엘상 13:2

“하나님이 주신” 또는 “하나님의 선물”이란 뜻으로 히브리어인 יְהוֹנָתָן (Yehonatan) (יוֹנָתָן (Yonatan)으로 축소된)에서 기원 되었습니다. 구약성경 사무엘서에서 조나단은 사울의 큰 아들이자 다윗의 가정 친한 친구였습니다. 사울의 분노와 질투에도 불구하고, 조나단은 다윗과 가장 친한 친구로 남게 되고 그를 숨겨주기도 합니다. 조나단이 팔레스타인들과의 전쟁에서 죽었음을 알고 다윗은 여자를 사랑하는 것을 능가할 정도의 형제애로 통탄해 했습니다.

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brotherly love    David    gift    Jonathan    Samuel    Saul   

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