Religion Quotes by Frank Moore Cross

The text says Deuteronomy was lost, but you say it was written then.

— Frank Moore Cross

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

[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

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

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

[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

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

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

The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else.

— Frank Moore Cross

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.

— Frank Moore Cross

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

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

It has been said that in order to pursue the history of Biblical interpretation, you must include the whole philosophy of the West, which…

— Frank Moore Cross

You have miracles [in the Hebrew Bible], yes, but they're not the work, normally, of demons.

— Frank Moore Cross

I guess what this is reflecting is my own search for answers that I can't find. Frank [Moore Cross] and I have examined a…

— Frank Moore Cross