Zwischen Athen und Jerusalem Quotes

“The world of the stories of the Holy Scriptures is not content with the claim to be a historically true reality - it claims to be the only true world, the world destined for sole dominion. ... The stories of Holy Scripture do not court our favor, as Homer's do, they do not flatter us in order to please and charm us - they want to subjugate us, and if we refuse, we are rebels. The belief in the one God who reveals himself to the world in Israel's destiny is imperious and exclusive.”
― Otto Kaiser, Zwischen Athen und Jerusalem: Studien zur griechischen und biblischen Theologie, ihrer Eigenart und ihrem Verhältnis (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die ... Wissenschaft, 320)