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

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.

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

I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.

[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.

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

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