The Hebrew Bible defines Judaism. It's certainly true that the Talmudic interpretations become authoritative and normative, but they are interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. So that is always there.

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

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.

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

The Bible is one, Old and New, in my particular tradition.

The text says Deuteronomy was lost, but you say it was written then.

If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical way. I think it is truer, or in any case, less misleading, to say that God is an old Jew with a white beard whom I love, than to say that God is the ground of being and meaning, or to say that God is a name denoting the ultimate mystery. I prefer the bold primitive colors of the Biblical way of describing God.