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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

Golden rule金科玉律 （利未记19:18,马太福音 7:12，路加福音6:31）

图片说明： God gives Moses the Ten Commandments.
图片版权： Cook Communications Ministries

圣经经文

上帝对摩西说：“不可报仇，也不要埋怨你的子民，却要爱人如己。我是耶和华。”（《利未记》第十九章第十八节） 所以无论何事，你们愿意被人怎样对待你们，你们也要怎样待人。因为这就是律法和先知的道理。（《马太福音》第七章第十二节） 以你希望别人对待你的方式对待别人。（《路加福音》第六章第三十一节）

意思

最重要和基本的定律。

来源及应用

金科玉律是指最重要和基本的定律。在《圣经》中，它是指“爱人如己”原则。 在其他学派也有很多类似的说法。例如，孔夫子曾说过：“己所不欲，勿施于人”，就被大家认为是所有行为的首要原则。

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