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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.

I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.

Then I studied theology in college, and when I was getting a Ph.D. in literature, I took courses in New Testament studies and studied Greek versions of the Gospels.

I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.

I've been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn't feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn't feel like I was getting anywhere.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.