The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else. — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
It has been said that in order to pursue the history of Biblical interpretation, you must include the whole philosophy of the… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
I try to look at the texts and say: Is there a way that I can find history in the texts and… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
That is to say, the inspiration, the interpretive richness of the text is what Elie [Wiesel] does publicly, and his interest in… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
In fact, we're both [with Elie Wiesel] engaged with the text. We search for different things, we find different things. There is… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
I find it exciting to get any historical material from the ground. As you know, I love to put ancient Israel and… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
I have referred to [Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] on occasion, but I doubt that you will find his name in any of… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Certainly professionally, yes [I was interested more in history]. And literary criticism, the structure of poetry. But it is primarily as a… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
The text says Deuteronomy was lost, but you say it was written then. — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
[Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all of his… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
When you come to the New Testament you can't even swing a cat without hitting three demons and two spirits. And magic becomes something… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Elie [Wiesel], when you ask, "Why do I want to know," I'm trying to grab the holy. And I'm getting thrown back. — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else. — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try to achieve… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible,… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
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