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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.
God the ultimate biography
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