God: A Biography

What is the author's style in God: A Biography by Jack Miles?

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God: a Biography is a passionate, erudite scholarly study of the Hebrew scriptures as a literary biography of God. It selects for discussion passages that show God developing self-awareness through the outcome of his interaction with the creatures he created in his image and likeness and the one nation he chose for a special relationship - Israel. Miles brings in historical criticism and theological scholarship only tangentially, to help ground his unique point of view.