"Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac.""
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"Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith."
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"Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse."
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"As for the discipline, we [me and Frank Moore Cross] belong to two different disciplines. One involves research and archaeological materials. Mine is more interpretive. But it is the love for the text that is there, and that is what makes the whole adventure of reading and studying and sharing worthwhile."
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"I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly."
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"Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to."
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"Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death."
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"No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions."
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"Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people."
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"I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life."
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"My anger rises up within faith and not outside it."
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"It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition."
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"The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter."
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"If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?"
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"Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them."
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"After all, God is God because he remembers."
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"When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated."
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"When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare."
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"We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not."
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"What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory."
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