God a biography jack miles review
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God a biography jack miles review
God: A Biography
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal , volume 19, number 2 (Fall 1996).
A Review of
Jack Miles
God: A Biography
(Knopf, 1995)
To call God: A Biography a misnomer is an understatement.
This recent book by Jack Miles is neither about God nor a biography. The source of Miles’s revisionist work is the Hebrew Scriptures or what Christians usually call the Old Testament, yet his interpretation of these books is not only unorthodox but idiosyncratic.
A literary critic for the Los Angeles Times and formerly a Jesuit, Miles claims he is not interested in matters of objective truth, whether theological or historical.
Rather, he wants to treat the God of the Hebrew Scriptures as a literary character, to interpret God through these varied texts as a Shakespearean scholar would interpret various leading characters such as Hamlet, MacBeth, or Lear.
In this case, his work is not a biography, but literary criticism. Because the idea of th