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Shakespeare’s Debt to the Bible London: Hand and Heart Publishing Offices, 1879. Burgess, William. The Bible in Shakespeare: A Study of the Relation of the Works of William Shakespeare to the Bible New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1903. Burnet, R. A. L.
Shakespeare and his immediate family were conforming members of the established Church of England. When Shakespeare was young, his father, John Shakespeare, was elected to several municipal offices, serving as an alderman and culminating in a term as bailiff, the chief magistrate of the town council, all of which required being a church member in good standing, and he participated in ...
Hephzibah or Hepzibah (English: / ˈ h ɛ f z ɪ b ə / or / ˈ h ɛ p z ɪ b ə /; Hebrew: חֶפְצִי־בָהּ, romanized: Ḥep̄ṣi-ḇāh, lit. 'my delight (is) in her') is a minor figure in the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible.
There's no shortage of Mother's Day bible verses to get in the spiritual mindset. Sometimes the best way to bond and reiterate "I love you" is to share a bit of scripture, and these bible verses ...
John 19:26-27 "When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, 'Woman, here is your son.' Then he said to the disciple, 'Here is your mother.'
William Shakespeare's play Hamlet has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous "To be, or not to be" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Some also occur elsewhere (e.g. in the Bible) or are proverbial. All quotations are second quarto except as noted:
Psalm 139:13-14: "For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I praise you, for I am fearfully and ...
This theory states that the Earl, one of Shakespeare's patrons, became the subject of Shakespeare's love, and the majority of the Sonnets are addressed to him. More specifically, Sonnet 105 occupies a group of sonnets within the Fair Youth sequence, from 97 to 105, that seem to indicate happiness at the return of Shakespeare's love, the ...