Introduction to Biblical Interpretation Quotes

“No mechanical system of rules will ever help one understand correctly all the implications or nuances in the three words “I love you” as spoken by a teenage girl to her boyfriend, a husband to his wife of twenty-five years, a mother to her child, or an aging baby boomer to his mint-condition ’57 Chevy.”
― William W. Klein, Introduction to Biblical Interpretation

“The books of the Bible are literary pieces, carefully crafted to achieve their purposes, not transcripts or merely cut-and-paste collections put together naively, haphazardly, or even chronologically.”
― William W. Klein, Introduction to Biblical Interpretation