Hershel Shanks Quotes

• I see history in Pentateuch. I see revealed truth in it. I see in it human holiness as much as divine inspiration. Wherever you open it, any page, you know that you are in the presence of something that exists nowhere else.

  Hershel Shanks

  Inspiration, Holiness, Pages

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• At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life I wanted to spend.

  Hershel Shanks

  Hebrew, Prophetic, Theological

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• I think that there is a certain schizophrenic aspect to my own relation to the Bible.

  Hershel Shanks

  Thinking, Aspect, Certain

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• In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature.

  Hershel Shanks

  Literature, Deals

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• To treat the history of Israel as I would treat the history of England or Russia or China; that is, an attempt at a scientific, historical approach.I am particularly fascinated with origins.

  Hershel Shanks

  Russia, Israel, Historical

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• Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very little in the history of interpretation [as Elie Wiesel has]. I've been interested in it, but I have not contributed to that field, really.

  Hershel Shanks

  Historical, Done, Littles

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• The Bible is a book that has shaped my life, my beliefs, my ethics, my moral concerns, my religious outlook. This is not something, however, that I have taught or written about. This has been, if you wish, a private aspect.

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  Religious, Book, Wish

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• I'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.

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  Religious, Discipline, People

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• I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other, a more private concern, interest and fascination with the Bible.

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  Thinking, Two, Fascination

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• [Mi padre era presbiteriano. Pero no me tomé la Biblia en serio hasta que me obligaron a estudiar hebreo en el Seminario Teológico McCormick.

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  Father, Hebrew, Ministers

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• We [with Frank Moore Cross] have the same fervor, the same passion when in front of us is a page, a unique page - every page is unique - of the Pentateuch.

  Hershel Shanks

  Passion, Unique, Pages

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• We differ [with Frank Moore Cross] simply because of our differing backgrounds.

  Hershel Shanks

  Crosses, Backgrounds, Frank

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• Both of you [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] are giants, dare I say nephilim [giants; see Genesis 6:4; Numbers 13:33], in your world.

  Hershel Shanks

  Numbers, Nephilim, Giants

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• For 35 years, Frank Cross held one of the most prestigious chairs in academia: the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University. I believe that's the third oldest university chair in the country.

  Hershel Shanks

  País, Creer, Años

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• I don't think there is any other professional Bible scholar who is more respected and honored [like Frank Moore Cross].

  Hershel Shanks

  Thinking, Crosses, Scholar

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• Frank 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 Shanks

  Book, Biblical, Years

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• It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

  Hershel Shanks

  Book, Biblical, Epic

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• Elie Wiesel has for years served as the moral compass of the civilized world. For many of us, including me, he has defined the Holocaust.

  Hershel Shanks

  Years, Holocaust, World

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• Galardonado con el Premio Nobel de la Paz en 1986, Elie Wiesel es también autor de más de 40 libros. Para el debate de hoy son tan relevantes como cualquier otra cosa las reflexiones sobre los textos bíblicos contenidas en sus conferencias y libros. Entre ellos figuran Mensajeros de Dios [1976], Cinco retratos bíblicos [1978] y su recién publicado Los Reyes Magos y sus cuentos - Retratos de maestros bíblicos, talmúdicos y jasídicos.

  Hershel Shanks

  Wise, Book, Biblical

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• As long as I'm giving a little hype, I can't resist saying that Elie [Wiesel] has also written a number of pieces for Bible Review, for which I serve as editor.

  Hershel Shanks

  Editors, Hype, Numbers

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• We have a text before us, an ancient text, a living text, and we try to enter it, not only to decipher it, but to penetrate it, to become part of it, similar to the way every student becomes part of a teacher's texture. That's how I see our [with Frank Moore Cross] two differing approaches.

  Hershel Shanks

  Profesor, Dos, Intentar

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• I know that the Bible has been a central influence in [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] lives - but in a very different way. In truth, you inhabit very different Biblical worlds.

  Hershel Shanks

  Biblical, Different, World

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