Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 19

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• In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Talking, Literature

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Towns, Sometimes

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical, Judaism

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The Bible is interpreted by the Talmud. Except, in Rabbinic tradition, a Talmudic law has the weight of the Biblical law. Sometimes we say in a prayer, "Blessed are Thou, O God, who has ordered us and commended us," to do something. But you don't find that "something" in the Bible; you find it in the Talmud. So Talmudic law becomes as important as Biblical law.

  Elie Wiesel

  Prayer, Blessed, Biblical

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.

  Elie Wiesel

  Stories, Adam, Adam And Eve

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use a word scholars love - problematic. Let's say there are doubts, to say the least, among many scholars, as to whether the Exodus actually occurred. That's a historical issue.

  Elie Wiesel

  Issues, Historical, Doubt

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

  Elie Wiesel

  Crosses, Professors, Frank

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of the story in the later Priestly source, it is more miraculous: The water stands up on either side like a wall. There are walls of water standing up. As you move back in time, oddly enough, the story becomes more historical.

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Moving, Sea

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical, Punctuation Marks, Doe

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Would Be, Want

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

  Elie Wiesel

  Sacrifice, Stories, Tradition

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.

  Elie Wiesel

  Determination, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, Sacrifice, Jew

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

  Elie Wiesel

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Important Events

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Trying, Jewish Faith, Defining Moments

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

  Elie Wiesel

  Sacrifice, Stories, Theology

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Occasionally, I come to moments of anguish in the text.

  Elie Wiesel

  Moments, Anguish

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8].

  Elie Wiesel

  Kings, Book, Law

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Share, Same Love, Crosses

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Reading, Adventure, Two

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.

  Elie Wiesel

  Half, Scholarship

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• What I do, I want to do with all my being.

  Elie Wiesel

  Want

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teaching, Writing, People

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Want, Humans

  "Fresh Air Remembers Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Peace Laureate". "Fresh Air" With David Bianculli, www.npr.org. July 8, 2016.

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• Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Want, Forget

  "Fresh Air Remembers Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Peace Laureate". "Fresh Air" With David Bianculli, www.npr.org. July 8, 2016.

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