Father & Son?(Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine)(Book review)

Commonweal | March 10, 2006| | Copyright

Jesus and Yahweh

The Names Divine

Harold Bloom

Riverhead Books, $24.95, 238 pp.

Few American literary intellectuals command more awe in the academy than Harold Bloom, the Yale English professor and scholar whose 1973 book, The Anxiety of Influence, traced the ways writers continually struggle against their literary fathers and mothers.

That book succeeded in enriching the literary lexicon not only with its title phrase but also with some of the ancillary terms Bloom introduced--"misreading," "belatedness"--to focus the agonized, ...

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