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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

Paul 保罗

图片说明: Portrait of Paul
图片版权: Saint Louis Art Museum/ public domain

圣经经文

使徒行传 13:9

意思

保罗,源于(古)罗马名字“Paulus”,在拉丁文中,意为“小的”或者“谦逊的”。保罗在新约中是一个重要人物,撰写大部分书信。保罗在福音传播中扮演很重要的角色,藉教牧书信来勉励信徒。保羅原來的名字叫掃羅(意為求問),保羅本來熱衷律法,迫害教會,卻在往大馬士革的路上遇見復活的主,眼睛就暫時瞎了。他繼續往大馬士革,在那裡重見光明,並且受洗。其后,保罗曾數度入狱,但仍把福音傳遍了地中海沿岸一帶地方。

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apostle    Damascus    gospel    humble    jail    Jesus    pain    Paul    persecute    prison    small   

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