God: A Biography by Miles, Jack - 1996

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Age toning to the papers. Wraps crisp and shiny with no creases noted and only hint of shelf & edge wear. Concludes with an Appendix on ""The Books of the Tanakh,"" an extensive section of Notes to the Chapters, and a comprehensive Index. 446 pages. From the back cover, ""What sort of a ""person"" is God? What is his ""life story""? 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 ambiguities of a Hamlet? This is the task that Jack Miles - a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and Near Eastern languages - accomplishes with such brilliance and originality .""