I grew up in a household in which the Bible played very little role.

I grew up in a household in which the Bible played very little role.

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.

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

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.

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

Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of one God in an abstract philosophical way.