Certainly professionally, yes [I was interested more in history]. And literary criticism, the structure of poetry. But it is primarily as a historian that I work, although text criticism and literary criticism are very much a part of my interests.
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.
Frank Moore CrossYou have miracles [in the Hebrew Bible], yes, but they're not the work, normally, of demons.
Frank Moore CrossI would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion.
Frank Moore Cross[Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all of his linguistic characteristics, and so on. We cannot determine what is historical and what isn't. As literary critics, we would understand the importance of this for understanding life, destiny. But the historical question must be left with a question mark.
Frank Moore Cross