God and Harold at Yale

Benjamin Balint in the Claremont Review of Books reviews Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine by Harold Bloom

More troublingly, however, Bloom sometimes asks us to tolerate not digression but an imprecision so thick that it threatens to deflect his argument. There is no doubt that the New Testament can fruitfully be read as a belated but strong misreading of its predecessor. But as we've seen, Bloom argues his way from that observation of Oedipal misprision to a claim about the irreconcilability of the two scriptures and the divine characters they present. But this conflates rivalry with irreconcilability.