That is to say, the inspiration, the interpretive richness of the text is what Elie [Wiesel] does publicly, and his interest in history is his privat…

- Frank Moore Cross

I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?

- Frank Moore Cross

If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken from him. He can no longer even communi…

- Frank Moore Cross

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

- Frank Moore Cross

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.

- Frank Moore Cross

[Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all of his linguistic charac…

- Frank Moore Cross

Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of one Go…

- Frank Moore Cross

My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it is to the New Testament.

- Frank Moore Cross

I have referred to [Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] on occasion, but I doubt that you will find his name in any of my indices. In my view, he is important in…

- Frank Moore Cross