'Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine,' by Harold Bloom
So Who Is King of the Jews?
Review by JONATHAN ROSEN
Published: November 27, 2005
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"Jesus and Yahweh" is not a big book, but it is bursting with ideas and contradictions, discussions (and dismissals) of New Testament scholarship, accounts of Lurianac kabbalah, gnomic Nietzschean utterances and brilliant asides about the essence of American religion. It also contains several outrageous statements - like the insistence that "Torah is Yahweh." Throughout, Bloom writes as if all Western literature were his private Talmud, turning it and turning it to reveal hidden meaning, and taking the whole of it personally: the author of the gospel of John "hates me and I respond in kind."
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Sunday, November 27, 2005
HAROLD BLOOM ON JESUS AND YAHWEH -- the New York Times has a review:
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