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 ...

Yahweh is a "stern imp" who "behaves rather unpleasantly" and "has been a disaster for his champions more often than not." Jesus of Nazareth was a "bewildering" figure who was "formidably ambivalent ...

Harold Bloom, Yale professor and dean of American literary critics, has once again ventured into the perilous waters of religious controversy with this meditation on two of the major figures of the ...

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Prolific literary critic, Yale professor and professional provocateur Bloom (The Book of J) here tackles the characters of the Jewish and Christian gods: what god do we meet in Hebrew Scripture? Who ...