"And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all."
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"Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible."
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"One day - I remember it was a Sabbath afternoon - I came to the synagogue with a book in my hand. I saw a commentary on the Bible by a certain Rabbi Moshe Dessauer, better known as Moses Mendelssohn. An elderly man came up to me - I was then maybe 10 or 12. "What are you studying?" he said. "Dessauer's commentaries," I said. So he gave me a slap on my face."
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"I was never without a book in my hand."
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"I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know."
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"We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story."
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"I am looking for the word which is there and shouldn't be there. I wonder, why is it there? Or I look for problems: the Akedah [the Binding of Isaac - Genesis 22]. It still baffles me. Each time I read it - and I read it at least twice a year - each time I discover new layers in it. Always. So this is of more concern to me than the minimalists."
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"There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid."
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"We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]"
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"We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love."
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"I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication."
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"I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and I teach and I go from university to university. I'm one of the old, but I still go around, but I only see those who are not like that, I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students."
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"Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word."
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