TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bloom,Harold
TI  - Jesus and Yahweh: the names divine 
SN  - 1573223220
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - Jesus Christ
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Judaism
KW  - God (Judaism)
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
N1  - Who was Jesus and what happened to him? -- Quests and questers for Jesus -- The dark speaking of Jesus -- The belated testament -- St. Paul -- The gospel of Mark -- The gospel of John -- Jesus and Christ -- The trinity -- Not peace but a sword or divine influence -- The divine name : Yahweh -- Yahweh alone -- What does Yahweh mean by "love"? -- The Son, o how unlike the Father -- Jesus and Yahweh : the agon for genius -- The Jewish sages on God -- Self-exile of Yahweh -- Yahweh's psychology -- Irreconcilability of Christianity and Judaism -- Conclusion : reality testing
N2  - 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." 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. 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.--From publisher description
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