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This slip-covered gift set contains the four New York Times best-selling titles that make up the Legacy of the Drow series: The Legacy, Starless Night, Siege of Darkness, and Passage to Dawn. Each of these titles center around R.A. Salvatore's signature dark elf character.
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greatness all around.......2007-08-06
The R.A Salvatore books for the Drow series is the first books i ever pick up and read. Me not being a reader thought i would never sit a read a book on its entirity, well i was wrong. since the very fist books i just kept reading. Salvatore puts the material in such a vivid way that you get involve in the story and you feel each character and their way of life since i started i read 9 books and working on my ten book. Thats how great the books are i Would recomend to everyone but specially to those people who think they will never read. Last i would like to say i hope that you soon be enjoying the books They're Greatness all aroundLegacy of the Drow Gift Set: The Legacy, Starless Night, Siege of Darkness, and Passage to Dawn (Forgotten Realms: Legacy of the Drow)
Legacy of the Drow.......2007-05-31
"As an old school gamer I dislike so many things that occur in these books, but this is some of the best sword & sorcery reading you will find. This is the 2nd or 3rd trilogy dealing with these characters. The imagination that went into creating the Ecology of the twisted society of the underdark is simply mind blowing."
Drow Gift Set.......2007-01-14
I was pleased at the condition of my order, and the speed which it reached me.
Drizzt.......2003-11-05
I'm guessing most people who are thinking of buying this are already familiar with the author, or perhaps have already read all four books.
If you haven't, then here's what you need to know. These four books center around a good-aligned drow elf named Drizzt, who is now wandering the surface of Faerun. If you've never read about Drizzt before, be advised that these four books are not first in chronological order of Drizzt's life; you'll be given some backstory to understand who Drizzt is, but you'll also know pretty much everything that happened in all the earlier novels, which may lessen your enjoyment of them when you eventually read them. I say "when" rather than "if" because it seems to me that if you approach these novels without an anti-Drizzt or anti-Salvatore mindset, you will love them, and you will go buy all the others.
I'm not going to write out a play-by-play of events in the book, since you can look them each up individually and get plenty of information from other posters. I give these 4 books a total of 5 stars; some are better than others, but none rank below a 3.
As a sidenote, if you are buying this as a gift for someone, you might want to know that they are set in the Forgotten Realms, which is a unique world, NOT a generic fantasy world. I would not purchase this set as a gift for someone unless I already knew that they were familiar with the Forgotten Realms world. It's too complex a place to approach in the middle of a series without understanding the world at least to some degree.
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Impoverished aristocrat Isabella Vernaducci will defy death itself to rescue her imprisoned brother. She'll even brave the haunted, accursed lair of the lion--the menacing palazzo of legendary, lethal Don Nicolai DeMarco. Rumor says the powerful don can command the heavens, that the beasts below do his bidding...and that he is doomed to destroy the woman he takes as his wife. But Isabella meets a man whose growl is velvet, purring heat, whose eyes hold dark, all-consuming desire. And when the don commands her to become his bride, she goes willingly into his muscled arms, praying she'll save his tortured soul...not sacrifice her life. Historical Romance Book Club Selection.
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Good mystery, powerful love story. Action and surprises keep the story moving........2006-07-14
This was an enjoyable paranormal story. Instead of the usual vampires and demons, we have a hero who is cursed to live as half man/ half lion.
Don Nicolai DeMarco communicates with and controls the wild lions on his land. He has been cursed to become one of them any time he feels rage. Few people try to visit his castle, and most who do try are never seen again.
Isabella Vernaducci's brother has been taken prisoner by a greedy neighbor. She knows that the only man powerful enough to demand her brother's release is the Don who is rumored to be half beast. She risks her life traveling alone to the castle of Don DeMarco. She will do anything in return for his help.
Don DeMarco believes that this woman is the chosen one who can break the curse that has haunted his family for generations. In return for freeing her brother from his captor, DeMarco demands marriage with Isabella. She agrees. Although his people seem to treat him as a monster, Isabella only sees him as a beautiful man. However, Isabella's powerful gift of intuition allows her to sense a presence of evil within the Don's domain. Through suffering attempts upon her life, Isabella begins to unfold the mystery of the Don's curse.
After years of being disdained and unaccepted by mankind, Nicolai is quickly enamored with this woman who treats him like a human being. He will kill anyone who threatens her safety. After several attempts have been made to harm her, Nicolai feels he must let her go back to the safety of her home town. However, the wild lions under his command refuse to let her leave. Nicolai is determined to destroy anyone who threatens his beloved Isabella. However, the rage of the beast inside him may become her greatest threat of all.
ROAR!!!.......2005-12-10
Again I just love it!!! the writing is such that you can feel yourself there!!! I love the compassion and understanding and complete devotion these lovers have for one another, plus just the thought of being able to run wild with the animals as one of them is enuf to keep me interested!!!
If you love hot guys and romance and damsels in distress with a very happy ending then this is the one for you!!!!
lair of the lion.......2005-09-25
it was not as good as her other books she is a great writer and i thought this book fell a little short
Lair of the Lion.......2005-09-25
If you are a Chrintine Feehan fan you will enjoy this story that is slightly paranormal. In it the heroine arrives to the lair to find an interesting and secretive man she hope will save her brother. His home and people are surrounded by secrecy and guarded by lions. She becomes part of the legend surrounding him and his people.
Interesting and mellow at the same time...............2005-04-27
This is my second book of Christine Feehan that I have read..... now the reason I started reading her books was due to all the good reviews she gets on all her books espically the Dark series. This book started out slow to me but it had kept my interest. I love the beauty and the beast concept it's one of my favorite stories. Isabella is a very passionate and courageous individual that you have to admire throughout the book and also you will love the determination and the strenght of Nicolai. The book had alot of sex episodes and it came to a point that I was getting a little tired of it........It literally made me started to skim those parts due to it's reptition. The story line could of been push up more in the book instead of reaching towards the end of the chapter........All the answers to what was going on and the the climax of the story was at the end of the chapter. It came to a point that it almost left me hanging due to it's abrupt ending like the author was literally rushing to get it over with....when to me it was getting very exciting. It's a good book but so far it's not one of her best.
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An unforgettable personal retracing of one of the most extraordinary expeditions of all time, when two great ancient civilizations, and two great armies, clashed.
The year is 403 B.C. The Athenian philosopher Xenophon finds himself with an army of Greeks marching to what is now Turkey. Their mission: to aid the Persian pretender Cyrus in a war against his brother Artaxerxes. At a great battle, Cyrus is killed and his army destroyed-except for the Greeks holding his right flank. Xenophon and the Greeks are now stranded in the heart of the Persian Empire, outnumbered a hundred to one.
The story of Xenophon's march to escape the Persian noose is an intensely personal and human tale, replete with clashes of arms and desperate hardships. It is also the tale of two civilizations at mortal odds with each other. With their turbulent mix of anarchy and democracy, Xenophon's men resembled a mobile Greek city, cutting both a military and a cultural slash through the Persian Empire. Though Xenophon's journey would end badly, his experience in the East would prove invaluable for those who followed, for sixty years later, the Greeks would return to Persia-under Alexander. John Prevas brings this epoch-shaping story to life with a compelling narrative vivified by his personal retracing of much of the route trod by Xenophon and his men in one of history's great adventures.
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Intro to Xenophon.......2006-04-03
Coming from a place of little to no understanding of this period in history, I found this book exactly what I needed to spark my interest to explore further into Greek history. It was an exciting read and difficult to put down. Prevas did well to capture the motion of the story and keep the reader on track with the movement of the troops and how Xenophon reacted to various situation. I also thought the description of the geography and local cultures were fascinating. For a novice like myself I thought it was a great read, both informative and exciting.
Adventure at Its Best.......2006-01-20
I enjoyed this book. Prevas's elaboration on Xenophon's history is highly readable. The book's narrative flows well and adds some drama. This book is well worth a look for anyone interested in classical or military history, but it is not academic. The volume has a good index and a significant bibliography but no notes. There is a chronology at the beginning of the text that is a useful tool to set the historical stage, especially if one is unfamiliar with ancient history. Prevas also includes several black and white photographs that lend a visual perspective of the ground the Greeks covered, a map describing their route and some borrowed illustrations that unfortunately depict Greek hoplite infantry from roughly 100 years earlier than the described events.
In his introduction, Prevas says that the march of the 10,000 (there were actually over 14,000 Greek mercenaries in the attempted coup by Cyrus the Younger) is "one of the greatest adventures ever told." I think he is right. The story of the 10,000 is a history lesson packed with political, social and cultural implications, and in that sense, it is a saga that demands to be retold and reread over and over again. This should be a high school text, but the West gave up on classical history in high school long ago.
The "Ten Thousand".......2003-08-18
I must confess that my knowledge of classical Greek history is rather weak, so I was very pleased to purchase this book. The author takes Xenophon's "Anabasis" and tells the interested reader about the famed "March of the Ten Thousand" through the Persian Empire and the Anatolian area. It's quite an interesting work, and although at times the author puts out facts that don't really appear to be accurate, he is merely letting us know what Xenophon wrote those many centuries ago. As with all ancient Greek histories, there are extended speeches that were probably never made, but the author does explain that in his afterward, to my satisfaction. Brush up on your Greek history, and read this work.
Retelling the Anabasis.......2003-04-20
An incredible narrative that entertains those who read it. Retelling the Anabasis with great talent and thorough research. Recommended for those who have not read Xenophon in the original Greek.
Enjoyable Read.......2003-03-03
Xenophon's March: Into the Lair of the Persian Lion by John Prevas was a very enjoyable read about a splendid corner of history. At the end of the fifth century B.C. an army of fourteen thousand Greek mercenaries joined an army of a usurper to the Persian Throne. When the usurper was killed and his army almost destroyed, the Greeks were trapped more than a thousand miles from their homeland and outnumbered almost a hundred to one. To make matters worse, their leader, and most of their captains, had been murdered and they were without significant cavalry.
If any were able to return to Greece that would have been remarkable. The fact that more than half returned is beyond description. However, the way in which it occurred is even more amazing. The Army that marched through the heart of Persia was not one led by a strong, experienced leader who had a firm control of a Army. The Greeks were led by an inexperienced commander, and the major decisions were made by the army as a whole, and only after a thorough public discourse. After the decisions were made, the soldiers would take issue with the leaders and punish those leaders, who in the view of the soldiers, had not acted properly. One can hardly imagine the American Army voting on tactics or the future of its leasers.
The book is a very cursory overview of the "March of the Ten Thousand." At times Prevas seems to move between a travel log and a history. With these limitations, the book is well worth reading. It is well written, and tells a remarkable story. However, if one wants a more thorough history I would suggest Xenophon own writings.
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After triumphing in Star Wars: The Unifying Force, the heroes of the New Jedi Order return in a dazzling new adventure!
Luke Skywalker is worried: A handful of Jedi Knights, including his nephew and niece, Jaina and Jacen Solo, have disappeared into the Unknown Regions in response to a strange cry for help that only they could hear. Now the alien Chiss have angrily lodged a formal complaint, accusing the missing Jedi of meddling in a border dispute between the Chiss and an unidentified aggressor.
Luke has no choice but to head to the Unknown Regions for serious damage control. Han and Leia follow, intent on protecting their children from what could be grave danger. But none of them are prepared for what they find when they reach their destination.
A colony of mysterious aliens is expanding toward the edge of Chiss space. The leader of the alien nest is resolute. Adept in the Force, he is drawing old friends to his side, compelling them to join the colony and meld their Force-abilities with his, even if it leads to all-out war. . . .
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so-so Novel with Hints of greatness.......2007-06-22
I really liked the overall plot of the book. I felt that the menace was new and not a rehashing of previous SW Novel villains. The whole hidden Nest thing was pretty interesting to me.
What brought this down in my eyes was the lackluster editing on the part of Lucasbooks. There were several moments that brought me completely out of the narrative.
1) Star Trek-ish Technobabble - Since when does the Millenium Falcon have nacelles? And the whole Reverse the polarity of the falcon's tractor beam thing was just too Trekky.
2) Continuity Errors - If this book was written before Episode 1 was released it would not be that big of a deal, but one of the characters talks about R2 units being created for use by the Imperial Military. Artoo existed well before the Empire was created.
3) Where did Artoo get this footage of Obi-Wan and Padme? From the movies it seems that Artoo stayed with Anakin and Threepio with Padme. This is a minor nitpick though not a biggie.
4) Plot points that seem like a computer game. I had no idea that Troy Denning was a Game designer until I read the part about Luke having to go on a quest to find a journal for the guy that supposedly invented something in Artoo. That part read just like a "go fetch" quest in a computer game that I flipped to the Author Information page to see if he did design games. This was too contrived for my tastes.
Again, basic plot and characterization was well-done, but these moments had me scratching my head and taking me out of the flow of the book.
One word, lackluster.......2007-05-04
So we just come off the greatness of the New Jedi Order, the Yuuzhan Vong are defeated and Ben Skywalker has been born. What does Lucas books give us? A trilogy that in concept could be absolutely huge! But due to poor writing in many places and an overall abundance of characters that are either unimaginative or frankly unacceptable to the universe (an ill-tempered ewok? That doesn't make any sense!) this trilogy falls into a three star category. The only saving grace is the character development. Jacen starts to seriously walk the double edged path to the dark side in this trilogy and begins to estrange himself from his sister. Read it if you're interested in the Legacy of the Force series otherwise stay away.
A So-So New Beginning.......2007-02-12
Troy Denning's The Joiner King is, at best, a so-so new beggining for the Star Wars universe. I will start with the positives. Denning is a reasonably good writer, and his chapters flow well, one to another. Further, I enjoyed the fact that Denning did not feel the need to add a scene for every major occurence. Some important events occured between chapters, and were only referenced after they happened. It allowed Denning to keep the page limit down a little and still keep a comprehensive story. Also, its nice to see the Yuuzhan Vong pushed to the background and see the story focus more on the after-effects of the war. The Planetary Reclamation Act was an interesting way to provide some minor political intrigue, and give Han and Leia something meaningful to do before getting involved with the whole Nest crisis. It is also nice to see focus shifting somewhat away from the original characters to the newer generation. I wont say its an even split, but about 40% of the book at least is devoted to the younger Jedi. Finally, Jacen's development is coming along well.
Unfortunately, that is where the positives end. The story is weird, and seems really stupid and unimportant compared to the terrible consequences of the Galactic Civil War. Also, very little actually happened in the novel. I understand that, since five years have passed (story-line wise) since the previous novel, Denning had to spend some time catching up. But as I said, the extent of the events was very minimal. The novel could easily have been half the length and contained at least as much story as it did. Aside from Jacen Solo's development, the character development of the other young Jedi, particularly Jaina was astonishingly poor. Jaina went from being a strong-minded and capable Jedi (if occasionally filling the damsel-in-distress role) to a weak, easily manipulated fool (who still played the damsel-in-distress half the time). The characters of Zekk, Lowbacca, Tahiri, etc. werent advanced at all. Denning may actually have taken a step back with Lowbacca and Zekk. Next, the plot line was, unfortunately, very predictable. The reader can guess who the leader of the Killik nest is within the first twenty pages of the book, which is then followed by about a hundred or so pages of discovering the leaders' identity.
There is potential in the Joiner King. If Denning can return Jaina to her previous role as the Sword of the Jedi and not some mindless little kid, the remaining two books in the series could work out well. But I see no reason to expect great things from the series. Those who enjoyed the New Jedi Order series may want to skip over the Dark Nest series and jump right into the Legacy of the Force series at this point. However it is important to note that the Dark Nest, more than anything, serves as background for the Legacy of the Force, so not having read the Dark Nest may lead to a good deal of confusion with future novels.
I can't decide..........2006-12-14
I can't decide if I should rate this book 5 or 1. So I averaged them and took 3. I think the "5" aspects of this book are: The Killiks are a great enemy not just some Vong-do-over. But I think the Killiks should be our ENEMY not our "nestmates". I also like how Denning portrayed the original trilogy characters. Another thing is Jacen. In the NJO series he was such an idiot. Now he seems to be filling his full potential (YAY!). Now for the bad points. And I mean the BAD ones. As in I-want-to-skip-this-chapter bad points. Jaina. What the h*** is she doing sharing minds with a bunch of bugs and a pathetic "Jedi" who is STILL pathetically in love with her. And what's with the "not working out" between Jaina and Jag? I'm sorry to say that I seemed to have missed the part when they "drifted apart" or couldn't "reconnect" after the war. It did not seem to me that they couldn't "reconnect" at the end of The Unified Force. Now Jaina is clicking and rubbing forearms (gross) with everyone she meets and it's going to be almost immpossible to have a relationship with anyone with that loser Zekk following her everywhere and finishing her sentences. Personaly, I don't think the younger Jedi Knights got enough attention and when they did, it sucked. Overall, the plot was really good but the factor that brought this book from a 5 to a 3 three was the whole Zekk-Jaina-Jag thing. I really hope the next books are better and Jaina can get her own mind back and maybe get back with Jag if Denning hasn't killed them off or turned them into insects yet.
P.s. did i happen to mention that I have the same feelings toward bugs as Han?
-Murl
dark nest i : the joiner king.......2006-08-11
the galaxy is picking up the pieces now that the yuuzhan vong have been subdued and that horrific war over. the new jedi order travel from conflict to conflict, serving as diplomat-police. at least, until they receive a strange call from the unknown regions. most answer, causing luke, mara, han and leia to follow them and discover a strange threat to the new peace.
the feel of the star wars galaxy seems to have shifted somewhat after the 'new jedi order' series. which is in no way a complaint. the characters have a sense of humour now, and (at least with those from the original trilogy) are becoming more relaxed in their old age. the new duo (jae the procedure-bound captain and tarfang the uppity ewok smuggler) provide laugh-out-loud antics without ever seeming ridiculous or totally out-of-place. the mystery of the nests is well expressed, especially in the apparently-never-happened blue bug attacks. yet, the novel ended in a way that made it seem to work just as well as a stand-alone adventure. the knowledge that there is a book ii is in the reader's mind, but there is no real impetus to look forward to that book.
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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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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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