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

I guess what this is reflecting is my own search for answers that I can't find. Frank [Moore Cross] and I have examined a lot of archaeological materials in the hope of finding out.

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

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.

When you come to the New Testament you can't even swing a cat without hitting three demons and two spirits. And magic becomes something that is everywhere. In the Hebrew Bible this sort of thing doesn't go on.

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

The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else.