When you come to the New Testament you can't even swing a cat without hitting three demons and two spirits. And magic becomes something that is everywhere. In the Hebrew Bible this sort of thing doesn't go on.

If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken from him. He can no longer even communicate. That's the Tower of Babel.

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

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.

I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion.

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

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