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050 00 $aBS1192.6$b.M6 1995
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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aMiles, Jack,$d1942-
245 10 $aGod :$ba biography /$cJack Miles.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c1995.
300 $ax, 446 pages ;$c25 cm.
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490 1 $aA Borzoi book
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 413-431) and index.
505 00 $tCan God's life be written? --$tCreator : Genesis 1-3 --$tDestroyer : Genesis 4-11 --$tCreator/destroyer : Genesis 12-25:11 --$tFriend of the family : Genesis 25:12-50:18 --$tWhat makes God godlike? --$tLiberator : Exodus 1:1-15:21 --$tLawgiver : Exodus 15:22-40:38 --$tLiege : Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy --$tConqueror : Joshua, Judges --$tFather : Samuel --$tArbiter : Kings --$tDoes God fail? --$tExecutioner : Isaiah 1-39 --$tHoly one : Isaiah 40-66 --$tDoes God love? --$tWife : Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi --$tCounselor : Psalms --$tGuarantor : Proverbs --$tFiend : Job --$tSleeper : Song of Songs --$tBystander : Ruth --$tRecluse : Lamentations --$tPuzzle : Ecclesiastes --$tAbsence : Esther --$tAncient of Days : Daniel --$tScroll : Ezra and Nehemiah --$tPerpetual round : Chronicles --$tDoes God lose interest?
520 $aMiles 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.
520 8 $aFor 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.
586 $aPulitzer Prize, Biography, 1996.
590 $bArchive
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aMiles, Jack, 1942-$tGod.$b1st ed.$dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1995$w(OCoLC)608473734
776 08 $iOnline version:$aMiles, Jack, 1942-$tGod.$b1st ed.$dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1995$w(OCoLC)623204497
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