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.

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

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

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.

[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.

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

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.