Comments on: Harold Bloom: Jesus and Yahweh

By: Kritikon Commonplace Book » At Home with Harold Bloom: (2) on the Humanities

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:03:50 +0000

[...] /a> Posted in Literature by Administrator By his own account, Harold Bloom has lost a step or two at age 77, after major heart surgery. His readi [...]

By: Obadiah

Obadiah — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:31:57 +0000

My favorite Open Source show!

By: Dr Ben Hole

Dr Ben Hole — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:28:37 +0000

How do I download this in iTunes as a podcast?

Thanks

By: bumble

bumble — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:37:23 +0000

Oh what a tangled web we weave with inventions of gods. The god created must have a creation and the creation in turn must have an end and the good must have an evil. Once dualism enters the mind it is very difficult to overcome. It becomes a never ending pendulum that swings back and forth in our thoughts never coming to conclusion and the subsequent chaos is how we find ourselves today. Is “holy” not a relative term and if so what does it mean to say “all things are holy”–I say all things are concepts–niether holy nor unholy. Its the old devil moon, dualism, causing chaos.

By: BeansN

BeansN — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 03:27:58 +0000

I enjoyed listening to Bloom & Leyden, though I would have liked more Bloom and less Leyden. As a view of God that I have found helpful, I would suggest the conversation with the Warsaw Ghetto survivor Marek Edelman, which was published in 1986 under the title of “Shielding the Flame.”

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:47:32 +0000

A very illuminating conversation. I have had similar ideas and it was wonderful to hear them echoed in such a fine fashion. Keep up the good work.

By: Mark Bellis

Mark Bellis — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:59:15 +0000

What he said about GWB was crude but when he said “….Auschwitz which as I say deserves to go down as the German people’s version of the Temple” he went a lot farther into ethnic hatred – I’m surprised Lydon didn’t stop Rabbi Bloom right there and take him to task over it.

And I don’t think Bloom has the Bible down completely – He thinks there should be an Aramaic Gospel because Jesus spoke Aramaic, but if there was a historic Jesus, he very likely also spoke Greek – it was widely spoken in the Middle East – even by Cleopatra (Glory of her Father) – note the three languages on the cross, and in the New Testament, Jesus does lapse into Aramaic when he is dying, a perfectly natural thing to do if he first learned Aramaic but spoke Greek to Hellenicized Jews and Romans, who likely also used it as a second language.

By: LeeJudt

LeeJudt — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:09:20 +0000

Harold Bloom has a lot to teach us about literature.

It is too bad that the host took up so much time discussing political issues instead of literary ones. Just because Bloom is a genius on literary subjects doesn’t mean that his knowledge of politics is equally insightful. Any two bit lefty hack could have done a better job roasting Bush than he did.

I am looking forward to reading Bloom’s book, though.

By: boyfrmnyc

boyfrmnyc — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:21:14 +0000

That show was the reason I listen to Chris whenever I can. I wish to add one more to that long list of who is god, (includes Eric Clapton) Christopher Lydon is god.

By: bitz

bitz — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:04:01 +0000

That God created all things does not make all things holy. The idea that all things are holy devalues the idea of holiness. I would say that all things bear the fingerprints of their creator.

I think the ‘religious right’ is an oxymoron. The religion they wish to be associated with is christianity, which has a very socialist flavour to it (with all the giving to the poor, first becoming last etc.) In my view, the political party is just doing whatever it can to get elected, saying whatever it needs to to deceive the people into voting for them.

In general, I think the american view of God is growing ever closer to ‘buddy Jesus’ of Kevin Smith’s movie Dogma.