there are more than thirteen hundred documented quotations and allusions to the Bible in the writings of Shakespeare? Shakespeare at times wrote with a quill in his right hand while the Bible was in his left. It is not surprising, therefore, that in one 2005 survey 98 percent of high school English teachers suggested that students who are biblically literate have an edge academically over those who are not, and in 2006 English professors from the top universities in the United States agreed that