God in Three Classic Scriptures Books in Order

Reading the Hebrew Bible as literature, Jack Miles follows God as a changing central character. Creation, violence, law and encounters with humanity reveal a contradictory personality whose development reshapes familiar stories and the relationship between deity and people.

Jack Miles reads the Gospels as a continuation of God’s troubled relationship with Israel. His interpretation of Jesus’s life and death asks how a divine promise can survive conquest, suffering and an apparent surrender to human vulnerability.

Jack Miles examines Allah’s character through the Qur’an, comparing its stories with related passages in Jewish and Christian scriptures. The resulting portrait explores divine mercy, religious continuity and differences obscured by familiar Western assumptions about Islam.