History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

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Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine
Harold Bloom
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Bloom's occasional forays into religious criticism are particularly interesting, given his lifelong passion for poetry and his contributions to the study of literature. And while discussions of religion itself are in play here, it is the characters of Jesus and Yahweh that inhabit the pages, and Bloom's literary critic more than his moonlighting theologian examining them. And what of that analysis? Bloom has an obvious affinity for Yahweh over Jesus (even though Jesus gets first billing in the book's title.) But to ascribe that preference to his Jewish roots is perhaps too easy. A close reading reveals more. Bloom finds that Yahweh, with his covenants, tempers, resolutions, and even occasional forays into the physical where he fights, eats and walks in the cool of the Garden presents a more interesting character than the rather enigmatic Jesus who only comes truly alive for him in Mark's gospel, and even more so beyond the canonical scriptures in the Gospel of Thomas. And though in sensibility and identification Bloom hews closer to Yahweh, he acknowledges the place Jesus and his followers have made in the world, through an application of his own theory of the anxiety of influence, noting that "The New Testament frequently is a strong misreading of the Hebrew Bible, and certainly it has persuaded multitudes." Provocative statements like these abound, but Bloom is no provocateur. Whether one agrees or disagrees with his meditations on the names divine, it is hard not to respect his vigorous intellect and bracing candor as he explores their power.--Ed Dobeas

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Harold Bloom has written about religion and the Bible throughout his career, but now, with Jesus and Yahweh, he has written what may well be his most explosive, and important, book yet.

There is very little evidence of the historical Jesus-who he was, what he said. As Bloom writes, "There is not a sentence concerning Jesus in the entire New Testament composed by anyone who ever had met the unwilling King of the Jews." And so Bloom has used his unsurpassed skills as a literary critic to examine the character of Jesus, noting the inconsistencies, contradictions, and logical flaws throughout the Gospels. He also examines the character of Yahweh, who he finds has more in common with Mark's Jesus than he does with God the Father of the Christian and later rabbinic Jewish traditions. Bloom further argues that the Hebrew Bible of the Jews and the Christian Old Testament are very different books with very different purposes, political as well as religious.

Jesus and Yahweh is a thrilling and mind-opening read. It is paradigm-changing literary criticism that will challenge and illuminate Jews and Christians alike, and is sure to be one of the most discussed, debated, and celebrated books of the year. At a time when religion has come to take center stage in our political arena, Bloom's shocking conclusion, that there is no Judeo-Christian tradition-that the two histories, Gods, and even Bibles, are not compatible-may make readers rethink everything we take for granted about what we believed was a shared heritage.

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tossed salad.......2007-08-17

There are many books which are able to expound their subject clearly and concisely and this volume by Bloom goes a long way astray of this goal. Aside from the main theme, which is constantly reiterated throughout, Bloom's writing is not very good here. While this book is an interesting case study of the religious side of Bloom's mind (always filtered through Shakespeare), it is not that helpful. There are no footnotes, the progression of arguments is anti-climactic, the biased world-view of the book gives only one side of the story, the audience focus is unclear (little insight into scholarly discussions, assuming prior knowledge), etc. As mentioned earlier, what one is able most to observe is Bloom's religious opinions. These at times may startle the reader, as Bloom concedes to the occasional orthodox reading of the Bible texts (startling, given his stated disbelief in them at many points). As a Christian, I was particularly intrigued by Bloom's revulsion at the idea of substitutionary atonement, followed later by his admission of growing concern in his old age about the third book of the Tanak, Leviticus, a case study in the centrality of substitutionary atonement for the Jews (or if you follow Bloom, the P writer).

What's the point?.......2007-07-27

It seems to me that books divide themselves into three catagories. Some books act like fruits and vegitables, they make you healthy and strong. Some act like candy, they give you a temporary boost but in the end add nothing and make you fat. And some poison the consumer like a drug. While Bloom's book certainly won't kill you, it certainly won't help much either. Bloom fills the book with meandering, speculating, sometimes clever (he calls Jack Miles, Yahweh's Boswell, which is a good line), but ultimately pointless sentences.

So, what books on religion give knowledge and wisdom to the reader? To me the Cambridge religion textbook and the others like it do. Jack Miles, Garry Wills, Billy Graham, and the Pope do to. At least they don't have me asking the same question I ask myself after eating a candy bar, What's the point?

unsatisfactory.......2007-06-27

The same theme is elaborated endlessly and repeatedly thus wasting pages and the reader's time. No bibliography. Is this supposed to be a layman's book where the reader trusts the view of the author without being given a clear indication of the exact sources of the data? It seems geared to sales by trying to be provocative, but fails in this. Perhaps the author believes his own publicity.

A Believer That Didn't.......2007-06-15

Possibly our greatest living literary critic is addicted. How else can one, with any clinical dispassion, describe these obsessive ruminations over Yahweh? These compulsions have produced a brilliant exploration of the divine names, Yahweh, Jesus and Allah, who are holy to most of the world's peoples, the Jews, Christians and Moslems.

Bloom attempts to describe the "personalities" of these divine entities
using both profound and trivial allusions to many literary themes while being surprisingly dependent upon Jack Miles. Of course, one may miss much of the author's insights if lacking an intimate acquaintance with Lear and Hamlet.

To think this reviewer began this effort by watching the usual shabby and superficial interview of Bloom by Charlie Rose. If only one could grasp why so many subject themselves to such treatment, then understanding Shakespeare's portrayal of Lear as Father and Hamlet as Son would come most readily. Even if you saw the Rose interview, persist. Pick up this extensive reflection and absorb some of what is being said!

Bloom concludes much. For example he asserts Yahweh and Jesus are not related. He defines his role as critic to: make the implicit explicit.
He claims no faith and asserts that the notion of a Judeo-Christian tradition is close to oxymoronic. He suggests: "Yahweh is a man of war, Allah is a suicide bomber." Judaism and Christianity are: "different people talking about different things to different people."

He fears Yahweh and demonstrates over and over again a life-long fascination even love of the Object which has such a hold over him. He remains a child of the Covenant even as he denies that which has fathered him. His commentary on the Gospels and Paul is not to be missed.

Even so, this is a really wonderful exploration and exposition of the divine names which should be read by anyone with a basic interest in his themes and a minimum exposure to the people and ideas he expounds. Only the most interested in esoterica will wish to struggle through his discussion of the logical(?) convolutions of Kabalah. The editor should have insisted this material be placed in another treatise. The result would have been more readable but the author surely would have felt this personal odyssey incomplete.

An excursion into Jewish mysticism was necessary more for the author than the reader. With or with out, and through all his doubts, his belief still comes through... "...Yahweh who is not to be mocked with impunity, as we are bound to learn again."

Perplexing.......2007-05-25

This book perplexes me. The author, a literary critic, uses alusions to Shakespearian characters, Plato, Kafka and others. In engaging in this literary analysis, I am not quite sure that he ever really answers the question posed by this book; whether "Judeo-Christian" is an oxymoron and, in fact, the two traditions are incompatible. If anything, these alusions only serve to muddle the book and make an interesting topic more difficult to comprehend than it should be. As a lawyer, I remember that real estate forms were reprinted in "plain English" a number of years ago. I wish Bloom could write in plain, clear English. Bloom analyzes both Jesus and the Jewish deity who he calls by what many believe to be the actual holy name, Yahweh. Furthermore, he breaks down Jesus to Jesus of Nazareth, in Paul's writings and in Mark, and the very different Jesus Christ of the later gospels, particularly John.

Bloom describes Yahweh as basically human but unloving. He demands love but doesn't give love Himself. Bloom hasn't looked deeply enough. When God tells Abraham that his descedents shall be as numerous as the stars, I submit that He is speaking to Abraham in loving terms, that in the deepest love, he is confering on Abraham the role of patriarch. I also wonder if Bloom ever read Jeremiah 31:17-18. In those verses, God describes the northern kingdom as "Ephraim" and says that Ephraim is like a darling son to be dandled on His lap. Also, many people, including Rabbi Akiba, have likened the love poems know as The Song of Songs to God's love for his people. Yes, God is depicted as bellicose and unpredictable but His love does indeed shine through despite Bloom's conclusory statement to the contrary.

A problem with this book is that using many sources, including Kabbalah, Bloom comes up with a portrait of who Yahweh. The problem is that there really is no unity in Judaism as to the aspects of God. Many very orthodox Jews are rationalists and do not subscibe to mystical kabbalistic images. Bloom, therefore draws conclusions that cannot be readily made.

Bloom states that Christian theology has changed the Hebrew Bible's God from "Yahweh" to God the Father. I agree with Bloom's conclusion on this matter. The concept of God as the father of a begotten son is contrary to anything implied in the Bible. Christians read the Hebrew Bible as prophesies of Jesus and of God being the Father. However, despite the many perplexing aspects of this book, I agree with the ultimate conclusion that the two traditions are very different. I just wish that Bloom's arguments in reaching this conclusion was more clearly stated.

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The Divine Name CD
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The Divine Name
Gregg Braden , and Jonathan Goldman
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In Kabbalah, the personal name of God is sacred. More than 2,300 years ago, God’s name was removed from the religious texts that link over one half of the world’s population, in order to safeguard its use.

What would it mean if The Divine Nameâthe personal name of God encoded within the DNA of all lifeâcould be reproduced with the human voice in its original form? Now you can experience the power, mystery and healing of The Divine Name, re-created through the sounds that unite, rather than the letters that divide! The power of healing and peace Through The Divine Name is available once again. . . .

Enclosed is an accompanying booklet that delves into this topic in detail.

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I Believe in the Discovery but...............2007-10-11

After Reading about "The Divine Name of God" I had to listen to the CD. I firmly believe in the discovery of the importance of the Divine Name and the relationship to each individual on the earth. Having said that....the tape is to bring you to a closer level of communication with the Divine and help with meditation. I could not wait to experience this beautiful feeling. Instead of providing relaxation is caused a very uneasy feeling within my soul. This disturbs me a great deal because I consider myself a very spiritual individual. Maybe I just need to listen to it again.....

Spiritual Healing Music.......2007-10-01

Jonathan Goldman is a master at composing spiritual healing music. His music is entrancing; it draws you in like a magnet and gives you a nearly instant feeling of inner warmth, peace and relaxation. His music is beautiful, perfect for meditation, sleep or relaxation.

The Divine Name CD.......2007-05-14

This CD will change your reality, deepen your intuitive energies, and bring
you into a whole new world of Meditation. Wonderful-----a must to get if
you do energy work of any kind.

Gregg Braden and Johnathon Goldman have a winner here.

Divine Sound.......2007-03-24

As a transpersonal psychologist and meditation teacher I was skeptical of the claims of this CD. After using the CD several times at bedtime I have the same woderful, mystical expericences each time. I drift off immediately into another state of consciousness which is either sleep and/or transcendental. It gently lulls my brain waves into another frequency which is beyond thoughts. In Transcendental Meditation practice we call this Pure Consciouness. I RX this CD for inducing sleep quickly. Whether or not it produces the vibrations of God is something that I would not know. But some people claim that Pure Consciouness is an aspect of God.

ancient studies.......2007-03-08

Gregg Braden, from what I know of him, has devoted much of his life to studying ancient religious texts, as well as modern scientific discoveries. This CD seems to be the representation of those studies into music. The music is somewhat familiar to me, which is comforting, as the music is the song of the interpretation of god's name, which Gregg Braden tells us is encoded into our DNA and the DNA of all living organisms. The transition from DNA coding into the music includes the numerology of ancient languages, Hebrew in this particular situation, as it correlates with the numerology involved in the science of the atomic mass of 4 basic elements: carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen. These 4 elements are the elements promiment in our DNA. I'm in awe of the synchronicity and connection of these seeming dissimilar sciences and music and spirituality and religion. I'm a skeptic of religion and spiritual studies in general, but Gregg Bradens studies make me question and wonder and maybe even start to believe there is something. I'm not saying what it is, as I don't know, but it can't be just a coincidence to ignore.

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CCEL Classics CD: works by Saint Augustine, John Calvin, John Donne, Julian of Norwich, Brother Lawrence, Martin Luther, Saint Teresa of Avila, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas a Kempis, John Wesley, and more!

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CCEL Classics CD: works by Saint Augustine, John Calvin, John Donne, Julian of Norwich, Brother Lawrence, Martin Luther, Saint Teresa of Avila, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas a Kempis, John Wesley, and more!
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The most important spiritual writings of Christian history are available on this Classics CD by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) at Calvin College. It contains 118 Christian classics, including three versions of the Bible, several commentaries, Bible dictionaries, readings, spiritual guides, sermons, poems and journals -- all in a convenient, searchable form. Books are available in HTML and PDF formats. The easy-to-use CCEL Desktop software powering the CD enables users to browse and print books and install additional books from the Web. The top-of-class search engine can search for words or phrases in books, in authors works or in the whole library. In addition, it can search for dictionary definitions of words and commentary or references to scripture passages. The interface is a Web browser. The CD is compatible with Windows 2000+, Macintosh 10.3+, and most Linux versions.

All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible

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All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible
Dr. Herbert Lockyer
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This is a unique classification of all scripture designations of the three persons of the Trinity. In this exhaustive study one becomes acutely aware that the riches of God's self-revelation are inexhaustible.

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Top Notch Resource.......2007-01-06

As all of Lockyear's "All of the....in the Bible" this book is an easy-to-read and valuable resource. Great for personal devotions focusing on the Names and Attributes of God, topical study, or sermon preparation. Highly recommended.

Bible Study tool that reads like a devotional.......2001-05-02

I am a fan of the late Dr. Herbert Lockyer's books. All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible happens to be the one I most refer to when studying or preparing a talk. He has done the intial, exhaustive research of listing all the names of the Trinty and giving scriptural references for each as well as a giving commentary on them. Though, I tend to stay away from commentaries, I find Lockyer's to be very straightforward with scripture and exceptionally praise-worthy.

The Divine Names and Mystical Theology: And, Mystical Theology (Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation)

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The Divine Names and Mystical Theology: And, Mystical Theology (Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation)
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A Bible scholar's view of the pronounciation "Jehovah".

The Divine Name Controversy
Firpo W. Carr
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A Bible scholar's view of the pronounciation "Jehovah"........1997-05-16

God has a name. So why is it that many English Bible translations have replaced it with the title "LORD" in all capital letters? Why is it that the King James Version has the name standing by itself only 4 times? On the other hand, why do some versions like the American Standard Version include it over 6,000 times in the OT? And why do even fewer contain it in the NT? And is the correct pronounciation of the divine name Jehovah or Yahweh? Dr. Firpo W. Carr, a recent Bible scholar who has earned his PHd in biblical languages, discusses and answers those and other questions.He is well qualified to do so; he has examined several Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible, including the Lenigrad Codex. He was also the first to take photographs of the Dead Sea scrolls which were later saved in electronic format

Jesus Y Yahve/jesus And Yahweh: Los Nombres Divinos/the Names Divine

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Jesus Y Yahve/jesus And Yahweh: Los Nombres Divinos/the Names Divine
Harold Bloom
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With Jesus and Yahweh, Harold Bloom has written what may well be his most explosive, and important book yet. There is very little evidence of the historical Jesus ―who he was, what he said. As Bloom writes, There is not a sentence concerning Jesus in the entire New Testament composed by anyone who ever met the unwilling King of the Jews. And so Bloom has used his unsurpassed skills as a literary critic to examine the character of Jesus, noting the inconsistencies, contradictions, and logical flaws throughout the Gospels. This is a thrilling and mind opening essay. Description in Spanish: Harold Bloom ha escrito acerca de la religin y la Biblia a lo largo de toda su carrera, pero ahora, con Jess y Yahv, ha logrado su libro ms explosivo e importante. Teniendo en cuenta que existen muy pocos testimonios del Jess histrico, Bloom ha utilizado su inigualable talento para examinar el carcter de Jess y observar las incoherencias, las contradicciones y los puntos en los que falla la lgica de los Evangelios. Tambin examina el carcter de Yahv, quien, segn Bloom, tiene ms rasgos en comn con el Jess de Marcos que con el Dios Padre de la tradicin cristiana y de la posterior tradicin rabnica. Adems, Bloom aduce que la Biblia hebrea de los judos y el Antiguo Testamento cristiano son libros muy diferentes con propsitos muy distintos, tanto religiosos como polticos. Jess y Yahv es una lectura emocionante y estimulante, una crtica literaria que cambia el paradigma y que supondr un desafo e iluminar a judos y cristianos por igual. En un momento en que la religin ha pasado a ocupar un lugar central en la arena poltica, la provocadora conclusin de Bloom de que no existe una tradicin judeo-cristiana, de que las dos historias, los dos dioses, e incluso las dos Biblias, no son compatibles, har que los lectores se replanteen todo lo que hemos dado por sentado acerca de lo que creamos era una herencia compartida. Sin duda, ser uno de los libros ms discutidos, debatidos y celebrados del ao.

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