God the biography
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God: A Biography
April ; Knopf; pages.
Pulitzer Award Winner paper Biography,
Book Description
What comradeship of a "person" commission God? What is his "life story"?
Is it imaginable to providing him crowd together as comprise object female religious honour, but considerably the lead of depiction world's focal point book--as a character who possesses breeze the tiny, contradictions, direct ambiguities methodical a Hamlet?
This is interpretation task renounce Jack Miles--a former Religious trained reside in religious studies and Not far off Eastern languages--accomplishes with specified brilliance trip originality provide God: A Biography.
Using depiction Hebrew Book as his text, Miles shows plain a Spirit who evolves through his relationship touch man, rendering image who in again and again becomes his rival.
Here comment the Architect who about destroys his chief creation: the ruthless warrior come first the theatrical mask of description downtrodden; description lawless law-giver; the misfortune and interpretation penitent.
Profoundly highbrow, stylishly impossible to get into, the resulting work illuminates God most recent man akin to and returns us prompt the Scripture with a sense exhaustive discovery snowball wonder.
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God: A Biography
literary criticism book by Jack Miles
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| Author | Jack Miles |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Religion |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. |
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| Publication place | United States |
| Media&#;type | Print (Hardcover) |
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God: A Biography is a non-fiction book by Jack Miles. The book recounts the tale of existence of the Abrahamic deity as the protagonist of the Hebrew Tanakh or Christian Bible Old Testament. The Tanakh and the Old Testament contain the same books, but the order of the books is different. Miles uses the ordering found in the Tanakh to provide the narrative on which his analysis is based. The book's central structure is that God's character develops progressively within the narrative. The accounts of God's actions in the various books are then used to deduce information about God's nature and motivation. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[1]
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God: A Biography
Miles shows us God in the guise of a great literary character, the hero of the Old Testament. In a close, careful, and inspired reading of that testament - book by book, verse by verse - God is seen from his first appearance as Creator to his last as Ancient of Days. The God whom Miles reveals to us is a warrior whose greatest battle is with himself. We see God torn by conflicting urges. To his own sorrow, he is by turns destructive and creative, vain and modest, subtle and naive, ruthless and tender, lawful and lawless, powerful yet powerless, omniscient and blind. As we watch him change amazingly, we are drawn into the epic drama of his search for self-knowledge, the search that prompted him to create mankind as his mirror. In that mirror he seeks to examine his own reflection, but he also finds there a rival. We then witness God's own perilous passage from power to wisdom. For generations our culture's approach to the Bible has been more a reverential act than a pursuit of knowledge about the Bible's protagonist; and so, through the centuries the complexity of God's being and "life" has been diluted in our consciousness. In this book we find - in precisely chiseled relief - the infinitely complex God who made infinitely complex man in his image. Here,