Bible Quote by Jesse Jackson, Jr

We may legitimately see in the [Old Testament] event, or in the record of it, additional levels of significance in the light of the…

— Christopher J. H. Wright

My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch…

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors…

— Anonymous

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

— Thomas Ken

“Claims for the occurrence of miraculous events will have to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. There can be no general theory to cover…

— John Polkinghorne

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

— Frank Moore Cross

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.

— Diane Arbus

“is now evident that many events of biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described. Some of…

— Israel Finkelstein

“Our task is to decipher the meaning of the historical-theological text in biblical narrative, not to reconstruct the original event.”

— Grant R. Osborne

“There are many narratives from documented histories that are based on real events, of course, but they were fantastically embellished by the wills and…

— Leah Reise

An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one…

— Upton Sinclair

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

— C. S. Lewis