God: A Biography: Pulitzer Prize Winner

This is an excellent book - which I have read more than once.This book was written prior to it becoming fashionable for authors to write biographies on such characters as Satan or Father Christmas.Here, the author advances a scholarly approach to understanding the character of God - as depicted in the Old Testament. He systematically works through the development of God's characterisation, as it is outlined in the various texts.We find that God has several personalities. He can be creative and loving, but at other times brutal and destructive. Three main characterisations are identified - which might be called: 'God', 'the Lord' and 'the Lord God'. Depending on which of these identities is being mentioned in the Bible, so a quite distinct personality is to be found.The book is very interesting, and excellently written - by not only a great writer but someone who is very knowledgeable on this subject. It is a highly in-depth analysis of God's life story. It was followed by an equally good study on the life of Jesus as a literary character.

I first read this book several years ago when it was new, and it was real eye-opener. The revelations therein lodged firmly in my mind then, and I simply had to replace the volume (having lent out the original and lost it).The author takes God as a literary character and examines his changing and developing persona through the bible - a 'book' that is supposed to represent a continuous narrative, and that has influenced the whole world for centuries.He clearly demonstrates that we cannot possibly take 'God' seriously if we apply only what we learn of him in the bible, since he is not just one entity but many - and if he only one then is he has a serious mental disorder!

Wonderful book. Even after all these years since its first publication this book continues to fascinate me. I have bought further copies as gifts to my friends who share the same avid interest in reading

An interesting approach in casting God as a character almost as if in a play, with developing interactions with other players.

One of the very most riveting books I have ever read, and I cannot think why I had not heard of it before.

Really interesting read

Excellent book, a must read

jack miles Im given to understand is a former jesuit priest,the subject of God is a little like nicotine for reformed smokers where mr miles is concerned,this is not a punitive statement but is indicative of the singularity of purpose behind much of the books prose ,brilliantly thought out blindingly obvious in places ,absolutely no sentimentality whats so ever and its this irony which leaves the reader plenty of room to think and feel as the story of the old testament unfolds ,God alone in the heavens a manifestation of his own being totally reliant on human beings in order to find himself ,this thrust of logic under pins the torah as a piece of not just high flown intellectual rhetoric ,but mainly practical reality bringing a common sense approach to a often overlooked medium and the subject of the secret heart of God ,the uneasy breathing of God post JOB ,where no one speaks directly then suddenly the tempo changes to allow God to reinvest himself in to the lives of his creatures what jack miles fleetingly describes as the kiss ,I found the more miles poured on the so called dissatisfaction of both man and God the more touching the conclusive missive became ,more in the same vein please