“I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try to achieve a new innocence, a new naiveté.” TryingAchieveHistoricalCriticalInnocenceInitials Author:Frank Moore Cross
“[Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all of his linguistic characteristics, and so on. We cannot determine what is historical and what isn't. As literary critics, we would understand the importance of this for understanding life, destiny. But the historical question must be left with a question mark.” LeftUnderstandingDestinySacrificeMajorsImportanceMarkHistoricalCriticsDetermineCharacteristicsThemeStrandsIsaacQuestion MarkUnderstanding LifeLife Destiny Author:Frank Moore Cross
“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.” KnowsLiteratureMaterialsTasksExcitingHistoricalAncientIsrael Author:Frank Moore Cross
“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.” ThinkingDoeBookDifferentFormLawReturnTraditionHistoricalCodeAppropriateSanctuary Author:Frank Moore Cross
