Elie [Wiesel], when you ask, "Why do I want to know," I'm trying to grab the holy. And I'm getting thrown back..

The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals..

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 than into….

The Bible is one, Old and New, in my particular tradition..