I've been on a faculty in a university, and I felt it was incumbent on me to deal with the Bible not as something I was attempting to convert people …

- 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

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 just completing…

- Hershel Shanks

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

- 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 to spend.

- Hershel Shanks

I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other, a more private concern, inte…

- Hershel Shanks

I think that there is a certain schizophrenic aspect to my own relation to the Bible.

- Hershel Shanks

The Bible is a book that has shaped my life, my beliefs, my ethics, my moral concerns, my religious outlook. This is not something, however, that I h…

- Hershel Shanks

We [with Frank Moore Cross] have the same fervor, the same passion when in front of us is a page, a unique page - every page is unique - of the Penta…

- Hershel Shanks