Yale’s distinguished literary critic and more-than-amateur, but less-than-professional religionist Harold Bloom treats readers to a profoundly humane internal dialogue between Yeshua (Jesus) of ...

Yahweh is a "stern imp" who "behaves rather unpleasantly" and "has been a disaster for his champions more often than not." Jesus of Nazareth was a "bewildering" figure who was "formidably ambivalent ...

First of all, Jesus was a Jew and their God was Yahweh. All through the ancient Hebrew texts, Yahweh maintained his uniqueness; there were no other gods. For Jesus, and any of his Jewish followers, to ...

Prolific literary critic, Yale professor and professional provocateur Bloom (The Book of J) here tackles the characters of the Jewish and Christian gods: what god do we meet in Hebrew Scripture? Who ...

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