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God: a biography

By:

Miles, Jack

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 1996 Vintage Books New YorkDescription: x, 446 p. 20 cm ; PbkISBN:

978-0679743685

Subject(s):

Religion God--Biblical teaching Bible.--Old Testament

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.

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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	GSB Collection	231 MIL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		34122

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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.

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