Pulitzer Prize Biography Winner
God: A Biography
by Jack Miles
Summary
Jack Miles reads the Hebrew Bible as a work of literature and treats God as its central character, tracing how that character develops across the books of the Old Testament. The book follows God from creator and warrior to a more withdrawn and silent presence by the closing chapters. It offers a bold literary approach that brackets questions of belief to study the figure on the page.
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Historical Context & Significance
Miles, a former Jesuit and biblical scholar, won the 1996 Pulitzer for an unusual biography whose subject is a literary portrait of the deity.