Friday, May 15, 2015
A Female Jahwist?
According to Harold Bloom in the Book
of J the Jahwist was a high class educated women in Solomon's or
Rehoboam's court tasked with preserving the traditional lore, and
instead wrote ironic tales highlighting the misogyny and ineptness of
God. After reading Rosenbloom's modern translation and going back to my
favorite Bibles to reread the stories there, I have concluded that J
was indeed female and some of the stories are downright satirical. But
for believers too much is never enough and they turned this inept
misogynist into God to be worshiped as without fault. Then the
Christians came along and turned those stories into the literal word of
God. Oh. My. God.
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