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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The oldest reference to the word YHWH comes from Egypt texts during the time of Amenhotep 111 in the 12th Century. This was the same period in history when Yuya, an Ibiri (Hebrew) who had risen to ...

I entitle this article “God,” and I did this for a specific reason. I think if we are going to talk about God, we need to discuss a couple of things to help us be more specific about who we are ...

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 ...

God’s personal name appears 6,823 times in Scripture. A new book explores what it means — and why it still matters today. In an age of religious confusion, the greatest need is simple: to know the ...