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

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

I have a concordance to the Talmud at home, which I have to use.

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

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.

Frank [Moore Cross], publicly dissects the text but he has a private, passionate relationship to the text that he doesn't often speak of publicly.

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.