Biblical Quote by Hershel Shanks

Frank Moore Cross is also a leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, which he's been since they were discovered more than 50 years ago. He's…

— Hershel Shanks

“The gospel of Jesus points us and indeed urges us to be at the leading edge of the whole culture, articulating in story and…

— N.T. Wright

“Therefore, the task of all Christian scholarship- not just biblical studies- is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and…

— John Piper

“In my own academic field, it is much easier to get a doctorate in biblical studies if you do a relentlessly left-brain analysis of…

— N.T. Wright

Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book…

— Andrew O'Hagan

I grew up as a fan of the original Star Trek series. When I was in middle school, I think in the 6th grade,…

— Ronald D. Moore

Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been published, because…

— Henry Lipson

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which…

— Aldous Huxley

Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book.…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

For 35 years, Frank Cross held one of the most prestigious chairs in academia: the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at…

— Hershel Shanks

At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life I wanted…

— Hershel Shanks

[My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at McCormick Theological Seminary.

— Hershel Shanks