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与欧洲近代作家作品；第 3 编为圣经与欧洲当代作家作品；第 4 编为圣经与俄苏
作家作品；第 5 编为圣经与美国作家作品。
1. The Bible and the Works of European and American Writers 聖經與歐美作家作品
2. Editor: Liang Gong
3. Publisher and Date of Publication: Beijing: Zongjiao Wenhua Chubanshe, Nov 2000
4. Pages: 419
Words: 300000
No. of Prints:3000
5. About the Editor: Liang Gong, born in Henan in 1952, received a Bachelor of Arts degree
from Beijing Normal University in 1983, a Master of Arts degree from Nankai University
in 1988, and was a Guess Professor in Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, and Lutheran
Theological Seminary, Chicago in 1994-1995. He is now a Professor in the Arts Faculty
of Henan University, a committee member of the Society of Foreign Literature of China,
a committee member of the Society of Comparative Literature of China, the executive
vice chairman of the Society of Foreign Literature of Henan Province, and a pioneer in
cross-world academics in Henan Province. His publications, ten in total, include The Life
of Jesus, A Guide to the Bible. He has published over 40 essays.
6. Summary: This book belongs to the “Christian Culture Monographs” Series, and is a
work of collective labour. The General Editor of this book writes in the Preface that
Hebrew Literature which is represented by the Bible, together with Chinese Literature,
Indian Literature, and Greek Literature, constitutes the four pillars of world literature.
The Bible is not only massive in terms of the number of its books, unique, profound,
multifaceted, being an inseparable part of the World Classics, but also, through the spread
of Christians and Jews, deeply and incomparably influential to the literature of all the
nations, especially the Medieval European literature and Modern literature. It is not an
exaggeration to say that, without the Bible, the history of Western literature were to be
rewritten. Almost all important poets and writers of all the countries in Europe and
America are closely related to the ideas and images in the Bible. Therefore, theoretically
and practically speaking, it is meaningful and important to investigate, in an objective,
neutral way, the influences of the Bible to the works of European and American writers
for a complete and accurate conception of the contexts and principles of the development
of world literature.
The publisher of this book writes that this book conducted a concrete and detailed study
of the relationship of the Bible to a serious of classic works of European and American
Writers according to a serious, prudent positivist spirit. Works discussed include
Augustine’s Confessions, Dante’s Divine Comedies, Shakespeare’s Dramas, Milton’s
Paradise Lost, Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, Goethe’s Faust, Charlotte Bronte’s
Jane Eyre, Oscar Wilde’s Salome, Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge, Franz
Kafka’s The Country Doctor, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, James Joyce’s Ulysses, Leo
Tolstoy’s Resurrection, Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, etc.
This book is divided into five parts. Part One is about the Bible and the Works of Ancient
and Medieval European Writers. Part Two is about the Bible and the Works of Modern
European Writers. Part Three is about the Bible and the Works of Contemporary
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European Writers. Part Four is about the Bible and the Works of Russian Writers. Part
Five is about the Bible and the Works of American Writers.
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