Bible Quote by Frank Moore Cross Download Open image “With the Hebrew Bible, you're living in an austere world.” — Frank Moore Cross ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bible Christianity Hebrew Hebrew bible Judaism World
I enjoyed translating half a Bible page, with my mom back in Australia, into Hebrew. — Ashley Zukerman Copy Share Image
The Hebrew Bible has long been the world's possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are equals in… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation. — John Adams Copy Share Image
I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the world. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
It is impossible for one who has studied at all the services of the Hebrew people to avoid the faith that they will one… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel. — Mordechai Vanunu Copy Share Image
Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name,… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Only 8000 different words appear in the Hebrew Bible, compared to the 20,000 or more that the average adult needs to know in most languages.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“The geographical and historical facts of Hebrew place it within the Northwest Semitic group of languages.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom and they… — Lyndon B. Johnson 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose, Sergeant,’ Anthony Payne replied. ‘That is from The Merchant of Venice, but it holds great truth.” — Michael Arnold Copy Share Image
When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell… — Lee Greenwood Copy Share Image
“Scripture also teaches that human beings are morally responsible creatures” — Robert A. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: "I had enjoyed much peace… — Stephen Taylor Copy Share Image
O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture… — Walsham How Copy Share Image
Every plant which my heavenly father has not planted with be uprooted — Jesus Christ Copy Share Image
Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like… — J.D. Salinger 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 linguistic characteristics, and so on. We cannot determine what is historical and what isn't. As literary critics, we would understand the importance of this for…” quote by Frank Moore Cross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7b3/frank-moore-cross-14963_characteristics_sacrifice-of-isaac-is-a-major-theme-of-t_309064.jpg)
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