God: A Biography

God: A BiographyWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE What sort of "person" is God? What is his "life story"? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? This is the task that Jack Miles a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and Near Eastern languages accomplishes with such brilliance and originality in

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

What sort of "person" is God? What is his "life story"? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book--as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? This is the task that Jack Miles--a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and Near Eastern languages--accomplishes with such brilliance and originality in God: A Biography.

Using the Hebrew Bible as his text, Miles shows us a God who evolves through his relationship with man, the image who in time becomes his rival. Here is the Creator who nearly destroys his chief creation; the bloodthirsty warrior and the protector of the downtrodden; the lawless law-giver; the scourge and the penitent. Profoundly learned, stylishly written, the resulting work illuminates God and man alike and returns us to the Bible with a sense of discovery and wonder.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/19/1996
ISBN: 9780679743682
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.21w x 1.21d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner

Review Citations: New York Times 05/05/1996 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly 03/18/1996
Newsweek 07/13/2009 pg. 46