An edition of God (1995)

God

A Biography

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An edition of God (1995)

God

A Biography

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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, we come closer to the essence of that literary masterpiece that has shaped our culture no less than our religious life.

In God: A Biography, Jack Miles addresses his great subject with imagination, insight, learning, daring, and dazzling originality, giving us at the same time an illumination of the Old Testament as a work of consummate art and a journey to the secret heart of God.

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Cover of: God
God: a biography
1998, Touchstone
in English
Cover of: God
God: A Biography
November 25, 1997, Random House Value Publishing
Hardcover in English
Cover of: God
God: A Biography
March 19, 1996, Vintage
Paperback in English
Cover of: God
God : A Biography
August 1996, Soundelux Audio Publishing
Audio cassette in English
Cover of: God
God: A Biography
March 21, 1995, Knopf
Hardcover in English - 1st ed edition
Cover of: God
God: a biography
1995, Alfred A. Knopf
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: God
God
Publish date unknown, Simon & Schuster Ltd
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Format
Audio cassette
Dimensions
7 x 4.8 x 0.8 inches
Weight
3.2 ounces

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Open Library
OL9723446M
ISBN 10
155935240X
ISBN 13
9781559352406
OCLC/WorldCat
35739748
Goodreads
42755

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Can a literary character be said to live a life from birth to death or otherwise to undergo a development from beginning to end?
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