jesus and yahweh

I wondered further whether the author of The Anxiety of Influence might not someday address the anxiety of canon, and whether he would not have to concede that the New Testament was what he would term a “strong misreading” of the Tanakh. He is author of three books. Please email comments to [email protected] and join the conversation on our Facebook page. https://goedbericht.nl/english/are-yahweh-and-jesus-the-same But I wake up these days, sometime between midnight and 2 a.m., because of nightmares in which Yahweh sardonically appears as various beings, ranging from a Havana-smoking, Edwardian-attired Dr. Sigmund Freud to the Book of Daniel’s silently reproachful Ancient of Days. 3:14, 15 Lord & God John 20:28 Ps. Jesus and Yahweh, the book I was then hoping for, is in equal measure critical and personal. For all its mellow interludes, Yahweh and Jesus is a roaring outburst of a book-but, for this reader, a rewarding outburst. Jesus is their "advocate" (1 John 2:10). To see just how breathtaking this statement really is, we must understand what Paul has in mind here. When a once-strong church slowly becomes loveless, offenses seem larger, conflicts stay longer, and the grace we once gave each other slowly fades away. e.g. Jesus himself Bloom credits with “the seizure...of Yahweh’s demonic, fathering force, the sublime of Jewish genius.” Though Jesus was not a writer, Bloom sees him as, in effect, authoring rather than merely authorizing himself. 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. The day is coming when every knee will bow and every tongue confess with us that Jesus Christ is YAHWEH to the glory of God the Father! The name YHWH is from the Hebrew word Hayah or Ayah which means: To be. Today, as in Paul's day, it takes courage to believe that Jesus is LORD of all,7 for real believing leads to real confessing.8 Our call is to confess the LORD Jesus in a world that hates him, knowing that we too will be hated.9 This is hard. The simple fact (which is easily proven from authoritative sources) is that this man was born a Hebrew and He had a Hebrew name. In Deuteronomy, God says to his people, “Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is one God. 1. 4 As a Pharisee, 5 Paul knew this text very well. The name Jesus is an invention of man which in no way carries the meaning of the true Name of this Man mentioned in the New Testament. For ancient Jews (and conservative modern ones), YAHWEH was the Name of names; so sacred that they would not speak it nor would they write it in full (they left out the vowels: YHWH). Is He your Lord, God and Savior? https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Yahweh-Divine-Harold-Bloom/dp/1594482217 Have you heard this word Y-H-W-H, commonly called the Tetragrammaton (four letter name), is pronounced Yahwah and Yahweh or Yahuwah and Yahuweh. In the LORD all the offspring of Israel 
> shall be justified and shall glory.2, Whenever the name LORD is printed in small caps in this English translation,3 it means the NAME: YAHWEH. Bloom’s cause as a critic has been to defend the aesthetic autonomy of literary art. May God help Christians to worship Jesus with urgency, joy, and passion, because he is Yahweh. Posing the question using the two proper names changes much. At times, in writing this book, I defend myself only by murmuring Oscar Wilde’s apothegm that life is too important to be taken seriously. His insomnia, to our edification, is highly contagious. Indeed, the historical Jesus, artfully reworked as he is in our only testimonials to him, is for Bloom only slightly less an oxymoron than the historical Yahweh. Jack Miles is the author of several books, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning God: A Biography and, most recently, Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story (W. W. Norton). Jon Bloom serves as teacher and co-founder of Desiring God. The question to be answered is not just why God became Man (cur deus homo, in Anselm’s famous formulation), but also why Yahweh, given his character, became Jesus, a man so different in character, when so many other human types were available. It is instructive to observe that an abbreviated form of finding in him a mere demiurge who had botched the Creation so that it was simultaneously a Fall. Footnotes. Thus, for him, Yahweh resembles Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, both of them exemplars of “someone who neither can accept love nor return it, though she or he perhaps demands it anyway, if only as worship or tribute.” Yahweh as an African Queen! 136:2, 3 God the 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, Oedipal back-and-forth between any powerful new literary text and its equally powerful forebears. Kirstin Valdez Quade’s new novel centers around the radical promise of the Crucifixion. As a Pharisee,5 Paul knew this text very well. He is the God who personally reveals himself in authoritative word and mighty act. Generally, you can observe that authors will swap out terms like “God” and “the Father” etc. The difference between Yahweh and Jesus has much to do, obviously, with the difference between Judaism and Christianity, a subject I set out to explore a decade ago in God: A Biography. So let's pray for boldness and in awe and wonder, with bowed knees and joy-filled hearts, confess that Jesus Christ is the LORD of hosts, the only God, the true Bread from Heaven, the Light of the world, the Way and the Truth, the Resurrection and the Life, the Savior of the world, the King of kings and Lord of lords! YAHWEH was the Holy One of Israel.4. Of all the characters caged and questioned in these pages, only Yahweh himself, finally, escapes Bloom’s custody. Design by. Yahweh, I ruefully would add, is much too important to be taken ironically, even if irony can seem as much his own mode as it is Prince Hamlet’s. Other gods, yes; he, no-until Bloom. Three new books interrogate America’s most cherished illusion. Jesus claims to be God. Read in the Jewish order, the Hebrew Scriptures came to a conclusion that, however poignant, simply could not be denied, or so it seemed to me: God evolves from a voluble bully to a mute, abashed at what he has done to mankind or to Israel or at the very least to Job. Most English translations render the Hebrew name for God as LORD, while some (like the New John 6:45-46, Acts 2:33. Sam Shamoun. This year has taught us in an unprecedented way what it means to hope for resurrection. He created ALL things! JESUS YAHWEH I Am John 8:58, 24; 13:19 Ex. The fiery tempered, “human, all-too-human” Yahweh (rendered by Bloom with vowels) is nothing like the Hellenistic, unfeeling, omnipotent God the Father. Though this has the ring of a historical claim, no such claim is intended. What exactly is the relationship between Israel in the old covenant and the church in the new. By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone out in righteousness
> a word that shall not return: "To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance. Hoping to offer a literary appropriation of God to which Jews and Christians alike might respond, I sought initially to engage first the Tanakh, the Hebrew Scriptures in the Jewish order (the “Law and Prophets” order in which Jesus himself knew them), and then the Greek Scriptures of the New Testament. Examining the New Testament Use of Old Testament Passages to Demonstrate the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. He wasn’t created by God but was God. To celebrate, we’re collecting poems and writings about poetry, with new additions by our literary critic every Friday. Bloom also examines the various … When God told Moses "I am that I am," that is the first person singular form of haya, "ehyeh." Christianity believes Jesus is God, or more specifically one person in God - the others being the Father and the Holy Spirit. Pause and feel the … Jesus is the Word. When writing about Scripture, in The Book of J (1991) and now in Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine, Bloom speaks, outrageously, of Shakespeare as if he were God and of God as if he were King Lear, but would anything less outrageous suffice to hoist the mighty Bible from the solitude of the Reformation lectern and transport it to the company of the other classics on modernity’s bookshelf? Jesus' advocacy, does not require a physical presence, but this is all accomplished through the power of the Holy Spirit of Jesus' God. A difficult but fascinating examination of the two most impenetrable literary characters of all time: Yahweh and Jesus of the Gospel of Mark. Yahweh as the Infinite (Ein Sof) of Kabbalah turns the tables on Bloom, taking the great warden hostage as Jesus never could or will. You can see Jesus assume the numerical identity of the Father and the one true God (=Yahweh) at John 17:1-3. Yahweh will slay Yeshua on the cross, but by then Yeshua-Joshua of Nazareth-will already have undermined Yahweh by his demonic word, revising his very character. Jesus Is Yahweh Do you know Him? Have you seen this word YHWH in Christian writings? https://goodfaithmedia.org/jesus-and-yahweh-the-names-divine-cms-6801 Harold Bloom uses his unsurpassed skills to examine the character of Jesus: the inconsistencies, the contradictions, and the Gospels' flaws of logic. Given Bloom’s avid critical temperament, I wondered, as I read The Book of J, why he had not taken the boldly tendentious Christian arrangement of the canon as grist for his mill. Its decorum long dictated abstaining from any literary discussion of the divine protagonist. Though perfectly capable of conventional historical criticism, Bloom privileges criticism written from inside the time that loses track of time. In Bloom’s literary approach, Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ are very different personae. He spoke and everything came into existence. In the Septuagint (the Greek Old Testament Paul knew) this is translated “…every tongue confess to God.” ↩. It is the eternal name of our Heavenly Father. Commonweal's latest, delivered twice weekly. Jesus and Yahweh arises from a characterological conundrum that becomes more pressing when the Bible is engaged as one literary classic among many rather than as literally incomparable revelation. But we are not to be surprised.10 Rather we are to take heart, for Jesus has overcome the world,11 and in him so shall we.12. On the contrary, as a scriptural critic he takes everyone hostage-the originals and the commentators alike-and then paces from cage to cage, interrogating his inmates and comparing one with another in an unsparing, epigrammatic, and endlessly instructive fashion. God: A Biography had to be published without any Christian epilogue. We are not referring to Jesus the human being as such, who did not even exist until he was supernaturally formed in the womb of the virgin Mary (Luke 1:31-35). Jesus is with his followers to provided whatever aid is needed to develop the spiritual growth of those called. The New Testament clearly describes Jesus as God. He knew exactly what he was saying: Jesus of Nazareth is YAHWEH. Though I had expressed, in print, severe reservations about other aspects of that book (see “The Book of B,” Commonweal, November 9, 1990), I admired how “The Psychology of Yahweh” broke with the central inhibition of the then-demure genre, “Bible as Literature.” This genre has been around in various forms since the Enlightenment, and revivals of its bienpensant, Phi-Beta-Kappa-ish biblical humanism have been as frequent as outright religious revivals. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. 2. He was with God in the beginning. He also explores the character of Yahweh, who Bloom argues has more in common with Mark's Jesus than he does with God the Father of the Christian and rabbinic Jewish traditions. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Master … “I very much want to dismiss Yahweh as the ancient Gnostics did,” Bloom writes. © 2021 Commonweal Magazine. His oeuvre apotheosizes the common experience of losing track of time when lost in the internal calendar of a novel or a concerto, or when frozen before an image, like Keats before his Grecian urn. Jesus and Yahweh, in my view, does not offer the last word on the complex subject of what is all too casually called “the Judeo-Christian tradition.” Regarding the historical process that over several centuries of theological and organizational maneuver catalyzed Judaism and Christianity as we know them, Bloom’s book must yield to Daniel Boyarin’s more daring, more original, still undernoticed Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (see “What If...”, October 21, 2005). Paul once approved of the execution of those who claimed such things.6 He would one day die for proclaiming it. To complete my initial project, I had to write a second book (Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God) about the protagonist of a second, Christian edition, in which the Hebrew Scriptures-rearranged as the Old Testament-serve as prologue. The brilliance may be fetched from afar, but brilliance it is, and with a shot of mischief. In Isaiah 44:24 it says Yahweh stretched out the heavens and the earth alone. "1 Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed
> all who were incensed against him. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5048309 Correctly translated in The Book of Yahweh, we read: He is quoting the LORD speaking through the Prophet Isaiah: Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! When Christians worship Jesus, we worship Yahweh. It isn’t easy to reduce the God, about whom Jesus spoke and Yahweh to a common denominator. YAHWEH was the Holy One of Israel. From the darkest depths, there comes ever a cackle. But on the agon between Yahweh and Yeshua as fought out in the timeless Scriptures, no one roils water or boils blood better than Harold Bloom. Yahweh, Jehovah, or Jesus? As any Bible-believing Christian already knows (assuming that he has actually carefully studied the entirety of Scriptures) the NT writers often apply OT passages which speak of certain characteristics or acts of Yahweh to the Lord Jesus. Letters from James Merrill and verse from poets who follow him, all exploring arcana with surprising rhymes and intricate musicality. April is National Poetry Month. For Maria Hinojosa, journalism requires shedding light on the people who have been ignored by mainstream narratives. https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Yahweh-Divine-Harold-Bloom/dp/1573223220 All rights reserved. Muffling none of his Jewish anger (“If the New Testament triumphed in the Roman mode,” he writes, “then the captive led in process was the Tanakh, reduced to slavery as the Old Testament”), Bloom nonetheless calls the New Testament “the strongest and most successful creative misreading in all of textual history.” In different moods, he lingers over Paul, John, and-most appreciatively-Mark, while Matthew and Luke do not interest him. We’re on a mission to change that. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/harold-bloom/jesus-and-yahweh It may be said that from God's perspective He is "I am," but from our perspective "He is." To my surprise and initial dismay, this project was defeated by the aesthetic power of the Tanakh. When Christians wholly devote their lives to Jesus, we wholly devote our lives to Yahweh. Have you met Him? JESUS IS YAHWEH. Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. The following quotation from the Gospel of John may be mentioned hereto: “Then said Jesus to those Jews …” (8:31) “’…If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God…” (8:42) Almighty God was not a fit subject for mere aesthetic appreciation. When Moses asked God whom he should say had sent him to save Israel from slavery, God told him to say that “I AM” (YHWH) sent him. Not only did He create all things, but John tells us that Jesus was in fact God. As the wordplay in Bloom’s subtitle suggests, the names divine: they conjure, they divulge. I trudge downstairs gloomily and silently, lest I wake my wife, and breakfast on tea and dark bread while rereading yet once more in the Tanakh, wide swatches of Mishnah and Talmud, and those disquieting texts the New Testament and Augustine’s City of God. Jesus and Yahweh arises from a characterological conundrum that becomes more pressing when the Bible is engaged as one literary classic among many rather than as literally incomparable revelation. (The most recent is The Bible and Its Influence, published by the Biblical Literacy Project.) For I am God, and there is no other. As proper nouns the difference between yahweh and jesus is that yahweh is (history of religion) the name of the god of israel worshipped by the jahwist prophets in the kingdoms of israel and judah in antiquity while jesus is jesus. Botched the Creation so that it was simultaneously a Fall ” Bloom writes Harold Bloom no! 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