What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.
-- Harold Bloom
   
Harold Bloom   Name:
Harold Bloom
Type:
Critic
Nationality:
American
Birth:
July 11, 1930
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