God: A Biography
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| God: A Biography | |
| Author | Jack Miles |
|---|---|
| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Religion |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. |
| Publication date | 1995 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 408 |
| ISBN | 0-679-74368-5 |
God: A Biography is a nonfiction book by Jack Miles. The book recounts the tale of existence of the Judeo-Christian deity as a protagonist of the Hebrew Tanak or Christian Bible Old Testament. The book's conceit treats the Bible as a literary narrative, and God as a character within the narrative. The Tanak and the Old Testament contain the same books, however, the order of the books is different. Miles uses the ordering found in the Tanak as the narrative on which his analysis is based. The accounts of God's actions in the various books are then used to deduce information as to the nature, character, and motivations of God. The book won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. .[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction (web). pulitzer.org. Retrieved on 2008-05-22.
