My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we had prayers.

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

What is public for you, Elie [Wiesel], is private for Frank [Moore Cross], and the reverse.

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

I find myself a little uncomfortable in the New Testament environment. And this is also true of what I would call late Judaism, the Judaism of the Second Temple and later.

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

I find it exciting to get any historical material from the ground. As you know, I love to put ancient Israel and its literature into their ancient contexts. And to rebuild - that is, to me, a very exciting historical task.