I think that there is a certain schizophrenic aspect to my own relation to the Bible.
Hershel ShanksI've been on a faculty in a university, and I felt it was incumbent on me to deal with the Bible not as something I was attempting to convert people to, or to have them enter into my religious experience, but rather as an academic and scientific discipline.
Hershel ShanksFrank Moore Cross is also a leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, which he's been since they were discovered more than 50 years ago. He's just completing an edition of one of the most significant scrolls for Biblical studies, the Book of Samuel from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Hershel ShanksIt would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].
Hershel Shanks