The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.

Elie [Wiesel], when you ask, "Why do I want to know," I'm trying to grab the holy. And I'm getting thrown back.

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

I have referred to [Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] on occasion, but I doubt that you will find his name in any of my indices. In my view, he is important in the history of interpretation; and that is a subject I have not approached directly.

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

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

I do think that the Josianic return to the archaic form of the Passover is appropriate and, indeed, historical. Josiah does go back to a different, earlier tradition, the time of a central sanctuary in which the law code was read. But then there were accretions to the Book of Deuteronomy.