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Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom has written about religion and the Bible throughout his career, but now, with Jesus and Yahweh, he has written what may well be his most explosive, and important, book yet.
Riverhead
October 2005
156 pages
ISBN: 1573223220
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
There is very little evidence of the historical Jesus-who
he was, what he said. As Bloom writes, "There is not a
sentence concerning Jesus in the entire New Testament
composed by anyone who ever had met the unwilling King of
the Jews." And so Bloom has used his unsurpassed skills as
a literary critic to examine the character of Jesus, noting
the inconsistencies, contradictions, and logical flaws
throughout the Gospels. He also examines the character of
Yahweh, who he finds has more in common with Mark's Jesus
than he does with God the Father of the Christian and later
rabbinic Jewish traditions. Bloom further argues that the
Hebrew Bible of the Jews and the Christian Old Testament
are very different books with very different purposes,
political as well as religious. Jesus and Yahweh is a thrilling and mind-opening read. It
is paradigm-changing literary criticism that will challenge
and illuminate Jews and Christians alike, and is sure to be
one of the most discussed, debated, and celebrated books of
the year. At a time when religion has come to take center
stage in our political arena, Bloom's shocking conclusion,
that there is no Judeo-Christian tradition-that the two
histories, Gods, and even Bibles, are not compatible-may
make readers rethink everything we take for granted about
what we believed was a shared heritage.
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