Book god a biography by miles
Book god a biography by miles
God a biography review...
Is it possible to approach God 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 ambiguities of a Hamlet?
How does he depend on the other characters, and how does his relationship with them show his development? Miles provides a learned, original exegesis that will send readers back to the Bible in curious amazement. Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for biography.
Former Jesuit Miles offers a detailed analysis of the nature and character of God as he appears in the Old Testament.
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From Library Journal
Despite its provocative title, this is a serious attempt to come to an understanding of the portrayal of God in the Tanakh, i.e., the books of the Hebrew Scriptures in the order of the Hebrew Bible, as opposed to the order in the Old Testament.
Miles, a former Jesuit with a Ph.D. in Near Eastern languages who is currently a me