We're both [with Elie Wiesel] a long way from the position of the so-called Biblical minimalists. Some of them see no history… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?". — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
"Am I my brother's keeper?" There you have the whole Biblical understanding that you are your brother's keeper. You also have a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Bible is interpreted by the Talmud. Except, in Rabbinic tradition, a Talmudic law has the weight of the Biblical law. Sometimes… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria... — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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