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 ...

An image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. (Credit: Vatican Media.) The prayer of the Christian is personal and relational. It is not offered to some unknown being or mysterious void. When Christians pray ...

First of all, Jesus was a Jew and their God was Yahweh. All through the ancient Hebrew texts, Yahweh maintained his uniqueness; there were no other gods. For Jesus, and any of his Jewish followers, to ...

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 ...