Knowingo

At a glance

Author
Jack Miles
Reading time
11 hours

Contents

  1. KEYNOTE
  2. The Image and the Original
  3. PRELUDE
  4. Can God’s Life Be Written?
  5. Generation
  6. CREATOR “Where Are You?” GENESIS 1–3
  7. DESTROYER “I Regret That I Made Them” GENESIS 4–11
  8. CREATOR/DESTROYER “Do Not Raise Your Hand Against the Boy” GENESIS 12–25:11
  9. FRIEND OF THE FAMILY “He Made Him Popular with the Warden” GENESIS 25:12–50:18
  10. INTERLUDE
  11. What Makes God Godlike?
  12. Exhilaration
  13. LIBERATOR “Your Right Hand Shatters the Foe” EXODUS 1:1–15:21
  14. LAWGIVER “Stone Tablets Inscribed with the Finger of God” EXODUS 15:22–40:38
  15. LIEGE “The Foreskin of Your Heart” LEVITICUS, NUMBERS, DEUTERONOMY
  16. Tribulation
  17. CONQUEROR “And They Did Not Leave Any That Breathed” JOSHUA, JUDGES
  18. FATHER “O Absalom, My Son, My Son!” I AND II SAMUEL
  19. ARBITER “You Are to Be King over Syria” I AND II KINGS
  20. INTERLUDE
  21. Does God Fail?
  22. Transformation
  23. EXECUTIONER “Lo, Swifily, Speedily It Comes” ISAIAH I–39
  24. HOLY ONE “To Whom Will You Liken Me?” ISAIAH 40-66
  25. INTERLUDE
  26. Does God Love?
  27. Restoration
  28. WIFE “A Day of Small Beginnings” HAGGAI, ZECHARIAH, MALACHI
  29. COUNSELOR “How Precious to Me Are Thy Thoughts, O God!” PSALMS
  30. GUARANTOR “In the Markets She Raises Her Voice” PROVERBS
  31. Confrontation
  32. FIEND “I Shudder with Sorrow for Mortal Clay” JOB
  33. Occultation
  34. SLEEPER “Do Not Wake or Rouse Love” SONG OF SONGS
  35. BYSTANDER “Returned to Her People and Her Gods” RUTH
  36. RECLUSE “You Have Screened Yourself Off with a Cloud” LAMENTATIONS
  37. PUZZLE “Who Can Straighten What He Has Twisted?” ECCLESIASTES
  38. Incorporation
  39. ABSENCE “He Explained to Them That He Was a Jew” ESTHER
  40. ANCIENT OF DAYS “Seal the Book Until the Time of the End” DANIEL
  41. SCROLL “We Make This Pledge in Writing” EZRA AND NEHEMIAH
  42. PERPETUAL ROUND “Let Him Go Up” CHRONICLES
  43. POSTLUDE
  44. Does God Lose Interest?
  45. Appendix
  46. ALSO AVAILABLE FROM Vintage Books

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