Crosses Quote by Frank Moore Cross

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

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

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If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical…

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[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…

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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…

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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…

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[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…

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Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of…

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Elie [Wiesel], when you ask, "Why do I want to know," I'm trying to grab the holy. And I'm getting thrown back.

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

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

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I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try to achieve…

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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,…

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