“It fascinates me to analyze these things and, yes, to see layers in the texts and the building up of Biblical literature. I think this provides insights that one simply does not get by the direct approach.” ThinkingDoeLiteratureBuildingApproachDirectInsightLayersBiblicalBuilding UpDirect Approach Author:Frank Moore Cross
“If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical way. I think it is truer, or in any case, less misleading, to say that God is an old Jew with a white beard whom I love, than to say that God is the ground of being and meaning, or to say that God is a name denoting the ultimate mystery. I prefer the bold primitive colors of the Biblical way of describing God.” IfsThinkingWayShouldTwoNamesWhiteCasesMysteryColorUltimatePhilosophicalJewAbstractPrimitiveBiblicalExistentialDeitiesBeardTwo WaysDescribingMislead Author:Frank Moore Cross
“I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?” ThinkingWantWellsMayAreasLikelihoodCertitude Author:Frank Moore Cross
“Furthermore, I think there was, in fact, a celebration of Passover in the era of the Judges in which the epic was recited in the context of the central sanctuary. That tradition was displaced by the Feast of Enthronement beginning in the Solomonic era.” ThinkingFactsJudgingTraditionErasCelebrationEpicSanctuary 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
“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.” ThinkingWayLiteratureDealsMaterialsDependsApproachBiblicalTemperament Author:Frank Moore Cross
