Quotes by Frank Moore Cross

Frank Moore Cross

[The story of Adam and Eve] it’s poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable.

Adam

Firsts

Stories

Furthermore, I think there was, in fact, a celebration of Passover in the era of the Judges in which the epic was recited in the context of the central sanctuary. That tradition was displaced by the Feast of Enthronement beginning in the Solomonic era.

Epic

Judging

Thinking

I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.

Students

Theological

I find myself a little uncomfortable in the New Testament environment. And this is also true of what I would call late Judaism, the Judaism of the Second Temple and later.

Environment

Littles

Temples

I grew up in a household in which the Bible played very little role.

Grew Up

Littles

Roles

I have a concordance to the Talmud at home, which I have to use.

Home

Use

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 the history of interpretation; and that is a subject I have not approached directly.

Doubt

Names

Views

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

May

Thinking

Want

I try to look at the texts and say: Is there a way that I can find history in the texts and separate it from what may be the mythological elements, and I don’t find any rules for that.

Elements

Looks

Trying

If I ever write a book on “How True Is the Bible?” I’ll have to start out by saying that archaeology is not the way to find out; that it has very little to say.

Book

Littles

Writing

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Adam

Ambiguity

Animal

Archaeology

Biblical

Book

Building Up

Cat

Crosses

Doe

Doubt

Eden

Elements

Environment

Epic

Experts

Father

Firsts

Form

Frank

Garden

Giving

Grew Up

Hebrew

Home

Human Condition

Inspiration

Interest

Judging

Law

Literature

Littles

Looks

Lost

May

Names

New Testament

Old And New

Order

Particular

Philosophy

Prayer

Reading

Reverse

Roles

Stories

Students

Swings

Taken

Temples

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Quotes by Frank Moore Cross

Frank Moore Cross

[The story of Adam and Eve] it’s poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable.

Furthermore, I think there was, in fact, a celebration of Passover in the era of the Judges in which the epic was recited in the context of the central sanctuary. That tradition was displaced by the Feast of Enthronement beginning in the Solomonic era.

I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.

I find myself a little uncomfortable in the New Testament environment. And this is also true of what I would call late Judaism, the Judaism of the Second Temple and later.

I grew up in a household in which the Bible played very little role.

I have a concordance to the Talmud at home, which I have to use.

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 the history of interpretation; and that is a subject I have not approached directly.

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

I try to look at the texts and say: Is there a way that I can find history in the texts and separate it from what may be the mythological elements, and I don’t find any rules for that.

If I ever write a book on “How True Is the Bible?” I’ll have to start out by saying that archaeology is not the way to find out; that it has very little to say.

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