author: jack miles

God: A Biography: Pulitzer Prize Winner

... Job 42 : 6 , apar wa'eper , " dust and ashes , " may represent either kind of object . It may refer to the human ... Stephen Mitchell , in his The Book of Job ( see note on p . 425 ) , agrees with Terrien and Murphy with regard to " dust ...

God in the Qur'an

... Concordance of the Quran by Hanna E. Kassis (Oakland, Calif. University of California Press, 1983; foreword by Fazlur Rahman). This concordance tracks the English of A.J. Arberry's The Koran Interpreted (London: Allen and Unwin, 1955) ...

A Friendship in Twilight: Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life

... Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “How COVID Sends Some Bodies to War with Themselves,” which discusses debates among physicians and medical researchers about the role of the immune system in this virus. Velasquez-Manoff focuses on a ...

Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story

Jack Miles. ethnicity are fused, religious comparison is commonly stated in ethnic ... did not always do so. And so during extended periods of Christian toleration ... Renaissance, philosophy had made a crucial start toward making neutral ...

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