Jesus and Yahweh

«When Jesus names himself God's son, he does not appear to invite literalization. He probably would have regarded Joseph of Egypt and David, both Yahweh's favorites, as being also "Sons of God." All Israel, as children of Abraham, were Sons and Daughters of God, as Jesus surely said (despite the Gospel of John's insistence that Jesus called his fellow Jews the children of devil). Only three times does Jesus claim God as his father in Mark, as opposed to thirty-one such assertions in Matthew, and well beyond one hundred in John. And no one quite agrees as to what precisely Jesus intended to mean by referring to himself as Son of Man. He was probably using the Aramaic emphasis in which Son of Man sharpened the precariousness of mortal men, which seems to be the import of the phrase in Daniel 7:13. There is very little basis in the Synoptics for the runaway Christianity of John and of theological tradition after him. Elliptical, ironic parabolist as Jesus was, it may well be that he was an enigma even to himself.
The central irony, for anyone who is not a Christian believer, is that the living Jesus of the Synoptics does not believe he is the Incarnation of Yahweh, and least of all at the moment of his death, when he despairingly asks his abba why he has been abandoned. Death and stories of ressurrection make Jesus a Name Divine from prior to St. Paul onward, and necessarily the transition from Yeshua of Nazareth to Jesus Christ was performed by those who first accepted the Apostle Paul's conversion. The Christian historical scholars who most persuade me - Father John Meier and E. P. Sanders - are not ironists and they differ on their receptivity to the supernatural, accepted by Meier on grounds of Catholic faith but largely avoided by Sanders, whose Jesus remains firmly Jewish, though as so autonomous a charismatic that he constitutes his own authority, transcending Tanakh. Sanders gives us a Jesus who had an unmediated relationship with Yahweh - perhaps not unique, since prophets on to John the Baptist possessed the same attribute.»

Harold Bloom, Jesus and Yahweh, The Names Divine