Harold Bloom (b. 1930) is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor at New York University, and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. He is the author of more than twenty books, including The Anxiety of Influence; Deconstruction and Criticism; The Western Canon; Shakespeare: The invention of the Human; and Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

Prologue: That, too, I must have known; Kabbalah; Kabbalah and Criticism; The Necessity of Misreading; Epilogue: The Name Spoken Over the Water. Introduction; 1. Does the Testament of Abraham Belong to a Genre?; 2. Humour in the Testament of Abraham; 3. Characterization of Abraham; 4. Characterization of Michael; 5. Death in the Testament of Abraham; 6. The Plot of the Testament of Abraham; 7. Comparison of the Greek Manuscripts; 8. Conclusion; Appendix 1: The 54 Narrative Units of the Testament of Abraham; Appendix 2: Citations of the Three Manuscript Families; Bibliography.