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Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine

Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine

By Harold Bloom

Reviewed on: 02 2012 | Category: Adults

There is not a sentence concerning Jesus in the New Testament composed by anyone who ever had met the unwilling King of the Jews.”

Bloom used his unsurpassed skills as a literacy critic to examine the character, the various characters and personalities, of the Jesus of the gospel.  He also examines the characters and personalities of Yahweh, he is most frequently called in the Hebrew Bible (most people know  as Jehovah), who Bloom finds has more in common with Mark’s Jesus than with God the Father of the Christian and the later rabbinic Jewish traditions.