This is a course that introduces you to the New Testament literature, but also the history of other material from the very first one hundred years or so of early Christianity.

本课不仅介绍,新约文学，还会介绍其他文献的历史,可以追溯到基督教早期100年左右的时期。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But it began a Critical Study of the poems for the first time and Critical Methods were applied to history for the first time ever, really, in the early nineteenth century and thereafter.

这开启了诗歌批判研究的先河,十九世纪初期,人们首次将批判理论应用于,历史文献的研究中

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In passing, I just want to say that Homer, of course, is the basic text, the basic document for all Greek thinking in every area that you can imagine throughout the rest of Greek history.

顺便提一下,我只想说《荷马史诗》,毫无疑问,是古希腊一切文献资料的基石,贯穿了希腊的整个历史,无论是在你能想象到的任何领域

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And just to give you some small defense of that approach, I always like to ask students, "Suppose we didn't have a single historical record, no newspaper, no diaries. You know nothing totally reliable for what happened in the latter part of the eighteenth century in America."

我可以给你们一个反驳的理由,我总是问学生们,"如果没有历史文献,报纸和日记,那么对于美国十八世纪后期的历史,你们将一无所知"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选