圣经故事 （英文）
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内容提要：
《圣经》是基督教的一部经典，它对西方各国的文学艺和语言都曾产生过极大的影响，是一部极为重要的世界文学遗产。
本书是根据美国作家亨德列克·范隆所写的《圣经的故事》节选而成的。所选的章节有助于读者了解《圣经》的基本内容。它的文字简洁流畅，适合大学英语专业二年级学生及具的同等到程度的读者阅读。
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《圣经》是基督教的一部经典，它对西方各国的文学艺和语言都曾产生过极大的影响，是一部极为重要的世界文学遗产。
本书是根据美国作家亨德列克·范隆所写的《圣经的故事》节选而成的。所选的章节有助于读者了解《圣经》的基本内容。它的文字简洁流畅，适合大学英语专业二年级学生及具的同等到程度的读者阅读。
目录：
I A LITERARY INHERITANCE
II CREATION III THE PIONEERS IV FURTHER WRSTWARD VI THE ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY VII WANDERING IN THE WILDERNESS XI A JEWISH KINGDOM XX THE BIRTH OF JESUS XXI JOHN THE BAPTIST XXII THE MISSION OF JESUS XXIV THE NEW TEACHER XXV THE OLD ENEMIES XXVI THE DEATH OF JESUS 书摘：
书摘
Five thousand years ago a story which told of the creation of this world in seven days was common among all the people of western Asia. And this was the Jew ish version of it. They vaguely attributed the making of the land and of the sea and of the trees and the flowers and the birds and of man and woman to their different gods. But it happened that the Jews were the first among all people to recognise the existence of One Single God. Afterwards, when we come to talk of the days of Moses, we shall tell you how this came about. In the beginning, however, the particular Semitic tribe which later was to develop into the Jewish nation, worshipped several divinities, just as all their neighbours had done before them for countless ages. The stories of the creation, however, which we find in the Old Testament, were written more than a thousand years after the death of Moses, when the idea of One God had been accepted by the Jews as an absolutely established fact, and when doubt of His Existence meant exile or death. You will now understand how the poet who gave unto the Hebrew people their final version of the beginning of all things, came to describe the gigantic labour of creation as the sudden expression of one single and all-mighty will, and as the work of their own tribal God, whom they called Jehovah, or the Ruler of the High Heavens. And this is how the story was told to worshippers in the temple. In the beginning, this earth floated through space in sombre silence and darkness. There was no land, but the endless waters of the deep ocean covered our vast empires. Then the Spirit of Jehovah came brooding over the sea, contemplating mighty things. And Jehovah said: “Let there be light,” and the first rays of dawn appeared amidst the darkness. “This,” Jehovah said, “I shall call the Day.” But soon the flickering light came to an end and all was as it had been before. “An …… |