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 communicate. That's the Tower of Babel.

The text says Deuteronomy was lost, but you say it was written then.

Frank [Moore Cross], publicly dissects the text but he has a private, passionate relationship to the text that he doesn't often speak of publicly.

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

It has been said that in order to pursue the history of Biblical interpretation, you must include the whole philosophy of the West, which informs it at every stage.

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

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