Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
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| The Changing Face of God |
2000 |
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| The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004 |
2004 |
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| The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Hinduism |
2015 |
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Ethikon in Comparative Ethics Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| The Ethics of War and Peace |
1996 |
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| Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society |
2001 |
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| Civil Society and Government |
2001 |
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| Islamic Political Ethics |
2002 |
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| The Many and the One |
2003 |
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| Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism |
2006 |
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| Christian Political Ethics |
2009 |
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| International Society |
2021 |
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| Boundaries and Justice |
2021 |
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God in Three Classic Scriptures Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| God: A Biography |
1995 |
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| Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God |
2001 |
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| God in the Qur’an |
2018 |
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Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
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| Religion as We Know It |
2019 |
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| A Friendship in Twilight |
2022 |
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The Norton Anthology of World Religions Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| Buddhism |
2015 |
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| Daoism |
2015 |
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| Christianity |
2015 |
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| Judaism |
2015 |
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| Islam |
2015 |
Buy |
Jack Miles won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1996 for “God: A Biography,” a book that reads the Hebrew Bible as a work of literature with God as its protagonist. He followed that book with “Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God” and “God in the Qur’an,” completing a trilogy that examines the divine figure across three major scriptures.
Beyond his own writing, Miles has been a prominent editor and anthologist. He served as general editor of The Norton Anthology of World Religions and edited volumes in the Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics. Before his writing career, he studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and earned a PhD from Harvard University.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Jack Miles written?
Jack Miles has written 22 books across five series.
What was Jack Miles's first book?
Jack Miles’s first book is God: A Biography, published in 1995.
What is Jack Miles best known for writing?
Jack Miles is best known for his book God: A Biography, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1996. The book treats God as a literary character in the Hebrew Bible and traces his development from Genesis through the end of the Old Testament.