Frank Moore Cross

There was certainly an old law code which stands behind the earliest form of Deuteronomy. Presumably that is what was lost.

— Frank Moore Cross

Furthermore, I think there was, in fact, a celebration of Passover in the era of the Judges in which the epic was…

— Frank Moore Cross

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

I sense that what you two [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] share is that you each have a public relationship to…

— Frank Moore Cross

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

I do think that the Josianic return to the archaic form of the Passover is appropriate and, indeed, historical. Josiah does go…

— Frank Moore Cross

It fascinates me to analyze these things and, yes, to see layers in the texts and the building up of Biblical literature.…

— Frank Moore Cross

My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we…

— Frank Moore Cross

I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.

— Frank Moore Cross

The Bible is one, Old and New, in my particular tradition.

— Frank Moore Cross

I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?

— Frank Moore Cross

There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament…

— Frank Moore Cross

My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it…

— Frank Moore Cross

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

The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.

— Frank Moore Cross

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

What is public for you, Elie [Wiesel], is private for Frank [Moore Cross], and the reverse.

— Frank Moore Cross

Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No…

— Frank Moore Cross

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