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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

Saul 사울

그림설명: Saul searching for David
그림 저작권: V. Gilbert and Arlisle F. Beers

성경구절

사무엘상 9:2

“구하다” 또는 “기도하다”의 뜻을 가진 히브리어 שָׁאוּל (Sha’ul)에서 유래되었습니다. 구약성경 사무엘서의 이야기에는 사울이 선지자 사무엘에게 기름부음을 받은 (임명된) 첫 번째 이스라엘의 왕이었습니다. 그는 질투에 눈이 멀어 다윗을 핍박했습니다. 결국엔 그는 팔레스타인과의 전투에서 목숨을 끊고 후에 다윗이 그의 자리를 물려받습니다. 신약성경에는 개신교로 개종하기 전의 바울의 이름이 원래 사울이였습니다.

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