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 More Quotes by Frank Moore Cross More Quotes From Frank Moore Cross There was certainly an old law code which stands behind the earliest form of Deuteronomy. Presumably that is what was lost. Frank Moore Cross form law lost 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. Frank Moore Cross epic judging thinking 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. Frank Moore Cross philosophical biblical thinking
