TETRAGRAMMATON {THE EXCITEMENT LASTS}

  THE "TETRAGRAMMATON ", LETTER HEBREW NAME OF GOD, OFTEN PRONOUNCED YAHWEH', WHICH THE SCRIBE DID NOT WANT TO WRITE- " IT WAS TO HOLY." IN HIS AUDACIOUS WORK, THESE TWO YALE JEWISH SCHOLARS, HAROLD BLOOM AND DAVID ROSENBERG RECOVER A LOST MASTERPIECE BY A NAMELESS WRITER KNOWN AS J, AUTHOR OF THE OLDEST MOST POWERFUL STORIES IN THE BIBLE. RELIGIOUS  TRADITION ASCRIBES AUTHORSHIP OF THE PENTATEUCH--- THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE, OR CALLED TO THE THE CHRISTIAN, THE OLD TESTAMENT---TO MOSES, BUT SCHOLARS AGREE THAT IT IS IN FACT A COMPOSITE WORK CONSISTING OF TEXTS BY SEVERAL DIFFERENT AUTHORS, WOVEN TOGETHER AROUND 400 B.C.E. BY A MASTER EDITOR KNOWN AS THE REDACTOR R. THE OLDEST OF THESE TEXTS, RUNNING THROUGH GENESIS, EXODUS, AND NUMBERS, WAS WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR WHOM SCHOLARS CALL 'J.'
BLOOM ARGUES IS A WRITER OF OF THE STATURE OF HOMER, SHAKESPEARE, AND TOLSTOY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL GROUNDS, THAT 'J' WAS A WOMAN OF THE RO
YAL HOUSE LIVING AT KING SOLOMON'S COURT,IN JERUSALEM , NEARLY THREE THOUSAND YEARS AGO, AN UNKNOWN AUTHOR COMPOSED A WORK THAT HAS FORMED THE SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF MUCH OF THE WORLD EVER SINCE. THIS TEXT EMBEDDED WITHIN WHAT WE CALL GENESIS; EXODUS, AND NUMBERS, THREE OF THE DIVISIONS OF TORAH, OR THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES. THEY DON'T KNOW THE CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH THE WORK WAS COMPOSED, OR FOR WHAT PURPOSES, ULTIMATELY WE MUST RELY UPON OUR EXPERIENCE AS READERS TO JUSTIFY OUR SURMISES AS TO WHAT IT IS THAT WE ARE READING. SCHOLARSHIP, HOWEVER DEEPLY GROUNDED, CANNOT REACH AGREEMENT ON DATE. THE AUTHORS ASSUMED THAT "J" LIVED IN THE NEARBY COURT OF SOLOMON SON AND SUCCESSOR, KING REHOBOAM OF JUDAH
 WHOM HIS FATHER'S KINGDOM FELL APART SOON AFTER tHE DEATH SOLOMON IN 922 b.c.e. TO TAKE GENESIS ALONE, TEXT ACTUALLY CONTAINS NOT HREE EPICS BUT THREE VERY DISTINCT  LITERARY FORMS: A CREATION-FLOOD EPIC, A COLLECTION OF ORAL SAGA AND SAGA CYCLES, WISDOM- ORIENTED NOVELLA. TO UNITE THESE MATERIALS WOULD HAVE SEEMED EVEN STRANGER TO A TENTH CENTURY AUDIENCE. SOMEBODY WROTE THE BOOK OF "J" "J" MIXES  EVERYTHING AVAILABLE  TO HER AND PRODUCES A WORK SO COMPREHENSIVE AND SO UNIVERSAL THAT THE ENTIRE HEBREW BIBLE, GREEK, NEW TESTAMENT, AND ARABIC KORAN, COULD BE FOUNDED  UPON IT. SCHOLARS HAVE AWAY