Jack Miles - God: A Biography

Pros: Interesting idea
Cons: Poorly written, poorly researched

Being in a room full of books (I may have a room full of books, but am no bookaholic) and being surrounded by the numerous number of books on my dad's bookcase, I have always noticed the book, GOD: A Biography by Jack Miles, lying around on my...

Pros: provokes much thought and feeling; well-researched
Cons: may be offensive; hard to get into; takes a while to read?

Structurally at least, looking at the Hebrew Bible rather than the Christian Old Testament, we read a divine comedy with God (or Lord God) as the main protagonist, according to the former Jesuit Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography. In this...

Pros: Original, inspiring, makes you think.
Cons: A little slow at times when your trying to wade through the quagmire of information presented.

How does God think? How does he feel? In his book, Jack Miles takes the reader through a historical and educational look into the psyche of God.
Did you ever wonder where in time God realized that it was wrong to take a life? Did he always know...

Pros: easy reading, enjoyable
Cons: your views may differ from those portrayed herein

This volume looks at the Hebrew Bible as a book with God as its protagonist and comments on character development as the story unfolds. It is not a book for the light-hearted, either religious or academic. It is a difficult volume that requires a certain...

Pros: few
Cons: many

Compared to the career of the subject, this rather clumsy effort can best be described as a big bust. Obviously, this is not the authorized biography because, as we all know, Sam Donaldson has the inside track on that, and deservedly so, because Sam's...