I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion. - Frank Moore Cross - Quotesmemo.com

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Frank Moore Cross

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

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I have referred to [Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] on occasion, but I doubt that you will find his name in any of my indices. In my view, he is important in the history of interpretation; and that is a subject I have not approached directly.

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My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it is to the New Testament.

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The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.

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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.

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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.

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