Quote by Israel Finkelstein

“It is only to admit that what we have cannot be explained as an early (second-millennium-BC) document written essentially by one person (Moses). Rather,…

— Peter Enns

“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy, war, law,…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great number of…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“The Pentateuch was not authored out of whole cloth by a second-millennium Moses but is the end product of a complex literary process—written, oral,…

— Peter Enns

“In a certain state of thought is the common origin of very diverse works. It is the spirit and not the fact that is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The bottom line is that for Wellhausen and many other biblical scholars before and since, the Pentateuch as we know it (an important qualification)…

— Peter Enns

“Many modern and postmodern texts are essentially ironic, in which the allusions to biblical sources are used not to heighten continuities between the religious…

— Thomas C. Foster

“The world is not composed of religious and non-religious people. It is composed rather of religious people who have differing ultimate concerns, different gods,…

— Ronald H. Nash

“For every well-attested, heavily researched, and eminently authoritative argument made about the historical Jesus, there is an equally well-attested, equally researched, and equally authoritative…

— Reza Aslan

“However superficially appealing, the idea that a religious tradition could be saved from crisis because a group of intellectuals radically reinterpreted its sacred texts…

— Ross Douthat

“Religion has a checkered history, and some of it is reprehensible. An”

— Ravi Zacharias

“Religion is like the edge of a sword, unrighteous doing [polampol, doing things in one’s own way] is not allowed there.”

— Dada Bhagwan