... ninety-nine-year-old penis be bared to the knife.

18:24 Oct 15, 2011 

Why on earth would I do that? :-)

13:08 Oct 15, 2011 

Nick:
I suggest you write to Jack Miles, as the actual name of his Pulitzer-prized book is, indeed, "God, a Biography" and is very. very interesting.

11:05 Oct 15, 2011 

To call God: A Biography a misnomer is an understatement. This recent book by Jack Miles is neither about God nor a biography. The source of Miles’s revisionist work is the Hebrew Scriptures or what Christians usually call the Old Testament, yet his interpretation of these books is not only unorthodox but idiosyncratic.

A literary critic for the Los Angeles Times and formerly a Jesuit, Miles claims he is not interested in matters of objective truth, whether theological or historical. Rather, he wants to treat the God of the Hebrew Scriptures as a literary character, to interpret God through these varied texts as a Shakespearean scholar would interpret various leading characters such as Hamlet, MacBeth, or Lear. In this case, his work is not a biography, but literary criticism. Because the idea of the Hebrew God has left an indelible mark on Western civilization, Miles deems it important to explore the temperament of the Hebrew Lord.

20:56 Oct 14, 2011 

Just my opinion but bear in mind the IRONY of the original text.