panOk, to be fair, I did not understand most of this book. The thing is, I‘m not sure who would. It‘s not purely religious/biblical scholarship, as it pulls in a lot of rabbinical sources, but it‘s not entirely literary criticism either. Bloom can be very hard to read, but not always, but this one was extra tough. 🤷🏻♀️
#bookspin done, at least. Not keeping this one, so there‘s some shelf space free.
TheBookHippie I agree sometimes he is really hard to read! I wondered about this one. 4y
TheAromaofBooks I was curious so I read the synopsis of this one... is he basically trying to make a point that Christianity isn't actually rooted in Judaism...?? 4y
ravenlee @TheAromaofBooks yes? He says (frequently) that the Old Testament is basically a hijacking of the Torah, but also that the introduction of Jesus as Christ alters Yahweh of the early days into God-the-Father, who fades into the background as Jesus takes center stage. I think. There‘s a lot of repetition and a lot of jargon I didn‘t really follow, but I think that‘s part of it. 4y
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ravenlee Also, differences between Hebrew influence and Hellenistic...and some other stuff I didn‘t understand. 4y
TheAromaofBooks Hmmm. It's never a good sign when someone reads an author's book & can't actually summarize what he was trying to say! 😂 Sounds like he wasn't as focused as he needed to be or something! 4y
ravenlee @TheAromaofBooks exactly. The Jesus section talked a lot about Yahweh and the Yahweh section talked a lot about Jesus; and there were no endnotes or bibliography or anything! 4y
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