Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine

With so little evidence of precisely who the historical Jesus was or what he said, Harold Bloom uses his unsurpassed skills to examine the character of Jesus: the inconsistencies, the contradictions, and the Gospels' flaws in logic. He also explains the character of Yahweh, whom 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.

At a time when religion has taken center stage in the political arena, Bloom's controversial examination of incompatible Judeo-Christian traditions may make readers rethink everything we take for granted about what we believed was a shared heritage. A mind-opening and paradigm-changing challenge to Jews and Christians alike, Jesus and Yahweh may well be Harold Bloom's most explosive and most important book yet.

About the Author:
Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University