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Book of J

"According to Bloom, the J writer did not treat Yahweh strictly as a being to be held in awe and worshipped.  J's Yahweh is certainly not the transcendent God later worshipped by Christians and Jews."

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The Book of J Harold Bloom

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The Hidden Book in the Bible

"A great work lies embedded in the Bible, a creation that we can trace to a single author.  And I believe that we can establish that it is of great antiquity: it was composed nearly three thousand years ago--so it is indeed nothing less than the first work of prose.  Call it the first novel if you think it is fiction, or the first history if you think it is factual.  Actually, it is a merger of both.  But, either way, it is the first.  There is no long work of prose before this anywhere on earth, East or West, so far as I know.  We know of poetry that is earlier, but this is the oldest prose literature: a long, beautiful, exciting story.  And the astonishing thing is that, even though it is the earliest lengthy prose composition known to us, it is far from a rudimentary, primitive first attempt at writing.  It has the qualities we find in the greatest literature the world has produced.  Indeed, scholars of the Bible and of comparative literature have compared individual parts of it to Shakespeare and to Homer.  Those scholars were right, but they were barely at the threshold of the full work, a composition whose unity and brilliant connections have been hidden by the editorial and canonical process that produced the Bible."

Richard Elliott Friedman: The Hidden Book in the Bible

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