Update of 1 AM Saturday—
On the late Frank Moore Cross, biblical scholar—
"When you walked into his classes, you felt
you were on the frontier of knowledge in the field,"
said Peter Machinist, who studied under Dr. Cross
as an undergraduate at Harvard and now holds
the endowed professorship† there that Dr. Cross
had held until his retirement in 1992.
For religious remarks from a different Machinist,
see a post of July 24, 2012…
† Click link for a condition on the professorship that was
apparently met by Cross, but that has perhaps not
been met by Machinist, a rather rabbinical figure.