What is public for you, Elie [Wiesel], is private for Frank [Moore Cross], and the reverse.

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

In fact, we're both [with Elie Wiesel] engaged with the text. We search for different things, we find different things. There is a side of what he does that I'd like to do, a bit more privately. I'm not sure he is as interested in history, as I am.

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.

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

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.

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