God: A Biography
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God: A Biography
| Author | Jack Miles |
|---|---|
| Published | 1995 |
| Pages | 446 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Miles reads the Hebrew Bible as a literary work and its protagonist as a character who develops across it — warrior, father, judge, and finally silent. Pulitzer-winning, and deliberately bracketing the question of whether any of it happened. |
Where I heard about it
- A reply to @typesfast — in the thread under his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (June 2025), listed as “God: A Biography by Jack Miles.” The full set of replies is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- Bible — read as literature rather than as revelation or as history.
- Religious Intellectualism — exactly the register this tag is for.
- Storytelling — character development as the book’s analytic tool.
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
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