Bible Quote by Marilynne Robinson

“People were no longer concerned with understanding what a text said or what a thing was from the aspect of its fulfillment, but from…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“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

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

— Grant R. Osborne

“It is already apparent that the ‘minimalist’ view of the Bible as wholly fictitious and unhooked from historical reality, may be as much of…

— Simon Schama

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

— Frank Moore Cross

“In the deepest sense, the Bible is not meant to be interpreted, but rather revealed!”

— Eli Of Kittim

“Some of the things in the Bible take more study to understand than others, and people who haven't studied their Bibles (the unlearned and…

— Michael Shank

It fascinates me to analyze these things and, yes, to see layers in the texts and the building up of Biblical literature. I think…

— Frank Moore Cross

At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original.…

— Daniel B. Wallace

“Somewhere during the process of intellectual development there was a disconnect in the believer’s ability to discern fantasy from reality and the outlandish, scientifically…

— Al Stefanelli

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

“The formation of a unified standard (biblical) text probably also involved the elimination of terms and structures that were too archaic to be understood…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos