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Article: Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine.(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
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- September 5, 2006
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Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine. By Harold Bloom. Riverhead, 256 pp., $24.95.
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 Nazareth, Jesus Christ, and Yahweh. To this central cast, Bloom adds other characters and names along the way: God the Father, the Ein-Sof of mystical Jewish Kabbalah, the American Jesus, the Holy Spirit of the Pentecostals. For Bloom, the characters in texts are real, and thus they are real in his experience--and, by extension, in ours as well. In Bloom's literary approach, Jesus of Nazareth ...