num_pages: 446
description: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEWhat 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.
language: English
title: God: A Biography
titlecomplete: God: A Biography
genres: Christianity, History, God, Philosophy, Religion, Theology, Judaism, Spirituality, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2485
series: God in Three Classic Scriptures
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography
publisher: Vintage