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

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?

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

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

My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.

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.