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God : A Biography / Jack Miles.
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TextEdition: First Vintage Books editionDescription: x, 446 pages ; 21 cmISBN: - 0679743685
- 9780679743682
- BS 1192.6 .M6 1996
Contents:
Summary: What sort of "person" is God? 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? In this "brilliant, audacious book" (Chicago Tribune), a former Jesuit marshalls a vast array of learning and knowledge of the Hebrew Bible to illuminate God--and man--with a sense of discovery and wonder.
Can God's life be written? -- Creator -- Destroyer -- Friend of the family -- What makes God godlike? -- Liberator -- Lawgiver -- Liege -- Conqueror -- Father -- Arbiter -- Does God fail? -- Executioner -- Holy one -- Does God love? -- Wife -- Counselor -- Guarantor -- Fiend -- Sleeper -- Bystander -- Recluse -- Puzzle -- Absence -- Ancient of days -- Scroll -- Perpetual round -- Does God lose interest? -- The Books of the Tanakh.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-431) and index.
Can God's life be written? -- Creator -- Destroyer -- Friend of the family -- What makes God godlike? -- Liberator -- Lawgiver -- Liege -- Conqueror -- Father -- Arbiter -- Does God fail? -- Executioner -- Holy one -- Does God love? -- Wife -- Counselor -- Guarantor -- Fiend -- Sleeper -- Bystander -- Recluse -- Puzzle -- Absence -- Ancient of days -- Scroll -- Perpetual round -- Does God lose interest? -- The Books of the Tanakh.
What sort of "person" is God? 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? In this "brilliant, audacious book" (Chicago Tribune), a former Jesuit marshalls a vast array of learning and knowledge of the Hebrew Bible to illuminate God--and man--with a sense of discovery and wonder.
Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1995.
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