Abstract Quote by Frank Moore Cross

“Israel worshipped a God who could grow angry, who changed his mind, a God involved in history, who cared so much about one group…

— William C Placher

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never…

— Matthew Henry

Unlike many deities of the ancient Near East, the God of Israel shared his power with no female divinity, nor was he the divine…

— Elaine Pagels

God chose Israel not because they were superior but because of what He could do through them for others.

— Max Anders

God wanted Israel, as He wants Christians, to learn to utterly abhor and detest anything that had the potential of coming between them and…

— Max Anders

The concept of God in Jewish orthodoxy is one where you're having constant quarrels with God. Where I come from, in Islam, the only…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“In ancient Judaism the king of Israel was considered both Son of God and—astonishingly enough—even God.”

— Bart D. Ehrman

God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.

— Stanley Hauerwas

There is a spiritual Israel and a natural Israel. God is committed to both. Neither replaces the other.

— David Wilkerson

“Israel is the historical definition of the specific nature of the religious consciousness, save only that here this consciousness was circumscribed by the limits…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

The issue in the Bible is not just "Do you believe in God or not?" Everybody believed in gods of some sort. The question…

— Christopher J. H. Wright

The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.

— Michael Novak