Jack miles god a biography summary
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God: A Biography, by Jack Miles
Reading the Mystery
God: A Biography.
bygd Jack Miles.
Knopf. 446 pp. $27.50.
No summary of mine can do justice to the richness of this book. Jack Miles, a journalist and former Jesuit who holds a doctorate in nära Eastern languages from Harvard, has conceived the idea, which may not be entirely new but has never before been pursued with such thoroughness, of treating the God of the Bible as a literary character. In his pages, God emerges as a complex and ever-changing personality, the hero of the greatest work of literature in mankind’s history, created over hundreds of years by different artists of varying skills.
It is Miles’s argument that God changes profoundly in the course of the Bible. The interest of his work—rather, one of its many interests—lies in his exploration of how and why. In a sense, he writes, God ages, like the earth He creates and the human race He designs to possess it.
We see Him first as an im
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God: A Biography: Q&A
Below are Q&As about God: A Biography submitted by readers.
Question:
Thank you for allowing me to read this book, I thoroughly enjoyed it, it was well written and uppenbart well researched. The question inom would have for Jack Miles:
The premise of your book seems to be that God was vengeful and overreacted to the sin of Adam and Eve, and though He continued to be a warrior God, somewhere in history He changed His mind or personality and became "kinder and gentler". Was it ever a consideration that His gift of "free will" was His true mistake, with free will and the presence of Satan, making it almost impossible for human beings to be faithful, requiring God to find another way to save His creation?
Answer:
In the Genesis story of the creation of the human species, no reference is made to free will as such. However, at first, God places no restrictions whatsoever on the activity of the first human couple, and later he does,
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God: A Biography
1995 literary criticism book by Jack Miles
First edition | |
| Author | Jack Miles |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Religion |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. |
Publication date | 1995 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 408 |
| ISBN | 0-679-74368-5 |
| OCLC | 317866561 |
God: A Biography is a 1995 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 1996 Pulitzer Priz