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God : a biography / Jack Miles.
LIBRA - Special BS1192.6 .M6 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miles, Jack, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- God--Biblical teaching.
- God.
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Bible as literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 446 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1996.
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-431) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has label "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize" on front cover.
- ISBN:
- 0679743685
- 9780679743682
- OCLC:
- 34581887
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