Frank Moore Cross Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No different weight is given to one or the other.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Different, Weight, Hebrew

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• The Bible is one, Old and New, in my particular tradition.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Old And New, Tradition, Particular

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• 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, Thinking, Judging

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• I do think that the Josianic return to the archaic form of the Passover is appropriate and, indeed, historical. Josiah does go back to a different, earlier tradition, the time of a central sanctuary in which the law code was read. But then there were accretions to the Book of Deuteronomy.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Book, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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