Jack Miles
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 25 cm
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography, an erudite, hugely informative portrait of the God of Islam, the world's second largest, fastest-growing, and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1996, c1995
Physical Desc
x, 446 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
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