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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

Manna from heaven天赐甘露 （出埃及记16章第14节）

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圣经经文

意思

由于玛拿从天而降，“manna from heaven”现在意指天降财富。

来源及应用

摩西获上帝所拣选，带领以色列人逃出埃及的先知。在以色列人离开埃及两个月后，他们开始向摩西和亚伦抱怨，说摩西与亚伦不该带他们离开埃及。因为离开埃及意味着他们在荒漠中寻不到任何食物。上帝十分怜悯以色列人，并降下了一场“面包雨”，那些从天而降的玛拿(即食物)就像清晨降下的露珠一样。当以色列人看到自己的土地上铺满了薄片时，便问个究竟。那些玛拿看起来像一个个胡荽子，吃起来像用蜂蜜制成的薄脆饼一样香甜。人们把它们称作玛拿, 它在希伯来语中意为“那是什么？”

例句

Keywords

bread    gift    manna    supplies    unexpected    wilderness   

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