Jesus and Yahweh: The names Divine. Harold Bloom, literary critic of longstanding reputation, has entered again into an area of some rhetorical density.
Bloom has ventured to look at the books of the bible and to examine the interrelationships existing among: Yahweh (the God the Tanakh); Jesus (the son of Mary and Joseph); and Jesus Christ (the Son of God).
Half way through his book, Bloom sets out, for me, the thesis of his work.
“ … ‘Jesus’ in my title primarily means Jesus-the-Christ, a theological God. Yahweh, in his earlier and definitive career, is not at all a theological God, but is human, all-too-human, and behaves rather unpleasantly. Christianity transforms Jesus of Nazareth, a historical person about whom we possess only a few verifiable facts, into a polytheistic multiplicity that replaces the uncannily menacing Yahweh with a very different God the Father, whose Son is the Christ or risen Messiah. Both of these divinities are shadowed by a ghostly Paraclete (Comforter) named the Holy Spirit, while Miriam, the mother of the historical Yeshua or Jesus, lingers nearby under the designation of ‘The Virgin Mary’…”
P. 111
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