I’ve finished the book…meaning the book God: A Biography by Jack Miles. Here are the last of my jumbled-up thoughts for you to ponder on this beautiful, frozen Tuesday. [It’s one of those days where the frost lines each skinny tree limb, giving the illusion that each massive tree could crack into a million pieces.] […]
God as Literary Character – Part 2
I’ve been reading God: A Biography by Jack Miles, and have found so many things worth thinking about. For my preliminary thoughts, see yesterday’s post here. We are all our fathers and our mothers, in that we inherited 23 chromosomes from one, and 23 from the other. We have nothing all our own. That said, […]
God as Literary Character
I’m devouring this book–God: A Biography by Jack Miles. Of course, I’m hoping some of it will be useful and translatable for my second novel. [Jack Miles, “a former Jesuit, pursued religious studies at Pontifical Gregorian College, Rome, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and holds a doctorate in Near Eastern languages from Harvard University.”] The Bible […]