Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No different weight is given to one or the other.

You have miracles [in the Hebrew Bible], yes, but they're not the work, normally, of demons.

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 private reserve; he knows that he is not an expert in dissecting the text the way Frank [Moore Cross] does.

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.

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

With the Hebrew Bible, you're living in an austere world.

There was certainly an old law code which stands behind the earliest form of Deuteronomy. Presumably that is what was lost.