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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

Ruth (路得记)

图片说明: Ruth
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圣经经文

意思

路得是耶稣家族的祖先之一。她和丈夫原居摩押,即在今天的约旦。她丈夫去世后,路得离开了家乡摩押,跟随岳母拿俄米到以色列谋求生计。拿俄米却一直要求路得留在家乡摩押。路得决意与岳母相依为命,她说:“你往哪里去,我也往哪里去。你在哪里住宿,我也在哪里住宿。你的国就是我的国,你的神就是我的神。你在哪里死,我也在哪里死,也葬在哪里。除非死能使你我相离,不然,愿耶和华重重地降罚与我。”(路得记1:16-18)。这种誓死的坚定使得路得成为世人心中忠贞的代表。 “ruth”一字有贤良孝顺与忠贞的意思,“ruthless”则为反义词。当我们说某人是“ruthless”,就表示他很硬心肠。

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compassion    loyalty    Ruth   

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