Frank Moore Cross Quotes - Page 2

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

  Frank Moore Cross

  Trying, Want, Holy

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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

  Frank Moore Cross

  Crosses, Reverse, Frank

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• We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible, but it may illuminate it.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Giving, May, Archaeology

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• If I ever write a book on "How True Is the Bible?" I'll have to start out by saying that archaeology is not the way to find out; that it has very little to say.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Book, Writing, Littles

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• 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.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Passionate, Speak, Crosses

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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

  Frank Moore Cross

  Lost, Written

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I try to look at the texts and say: Is there a way that I can find history in the texts and separate it from what may be the mythological elements, and I don't find any rules for that.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Trying, Looks, Elements

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• In fact, we're both [with Elie Wiesel] engaged with the text. We search for different things, we find different things. There is a side of what he does that I'd like to do, a bit more privately. I'm not sure he is as interested in history, as I am.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Doe, Different, Facts

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament which way one deals primarily with Biblical material.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Biblical, Thinking, Literature

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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

  Frank Moore Cross

  Interpretation, Fascinating

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• It has been said that in order to pursue the history of Biblical interpretation, you must include the whole philosophy of the West, which informs it at every stage.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Philosophy, Biblical, Order

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• [The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Stories, Firsts, Adam

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The Hebrew Bible defines Judaism. It's certainly true that the Talmudic interpretations become authoritative and normative, but they are interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. So that is always there.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Hebrew, Interpretation, Judaism

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Biblical, Speak, Judaism

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• 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.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Israel, Historical, Tasks

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• With the Hebrew Bible, you're living in an austere world.

  Frank Moore Cross

  World, Hebrew, Hebrew Bible

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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

  Frank Moore Cross

  Law, Lost, Form

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• 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.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Book, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Certainly professionally, yes [I was interested more in history]. And literary criticism, the structure of poetry. But it is primarily as a historian that I work, although text criticism and literary criticism are very much a part of my interests.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Criticism, Structure, Interest

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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