God: A Biography by Jack Miles

God: A Biography by Jack Miles

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.

Jack Miles is a writer whose work has appeared in a variety of national magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, where he was literary editor and a member of the editorial board for ten years. The holder of a Ph.D. He has been a Regents Lecturer at the University of California, head of the Humanities Center at Claremont Graduate University, and visiting professor of humanities at the California Institute of Technology. He has a Ph.D. in Near Eastern languages from Harvard University and was a former Jesuit. God: A Biography, his debut book, earned the Pulitzer Prize and has been translated into fifteen languages. Today, he serves as a senior advisor to the J. Dr. Miles resides in Southern California with his wife and daughter, where he works for the Paul Getty Trust, a nonprofit that supports art and scholarship.

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ISBN 13	9780679743682
ISBN 10	0679743685
Title	God: A Biography
Author	Jack Miles
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1996-03-19
Number of pages	464
Prizes	Winner of Pulitzer Prize.
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