Articles on the Bible

A conversation with Jack Miles on his book titled "God: A Biography", an online interview with Miles and the Indialogue Foundation's Dialogue Studies series, posted November 11, 2023.  Miles reads the introduction of the book and then answers questions.

As Humanity faces Sea-Level Rise, Revisit the Noah Story in the Bible and Qur’an - Jack Miles reflects on Noah and Flood Stories in both the Bible and the Qur'an on the Emir-Stein Center's Informed Comment, posted September 21, 2020, (and on YouTube here on September 18).

Exodus: Is God's Redemption Universal? - Audio only. Miles speaks at the Board of Rabbis Passover Seminar - Sinai Temple, Los Angeles - March 31, 2015.

Judas & Jesus - What did the Gnostics really believe? From Commonweal, September 24, 2007.

How is God Holy? - In the Bible, things are holy not in themselves but only by association with God. God alone is holy in himself. From Bible Odyssey, 2005. Also available in Vietnamese here.

What Florida Could Learn From Urim and Thummim - The biblical selection process was laborious, slow, and wise. From Beliefnet, November 2002.

If God Smites, Why Can't We? - How the wrathful God of the Old Testament had a change of heart. From Beliefnet, September 2002.

Would King Solomon Choose Bush or Gore? - Perhaps the wise king would suggest a compromise. From Beliefnet, December 2000.

War, Peace and a Crisis in the Life of God - About the genesis of Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God and about the struggles that led to the ideas behind the book. It's also a timely look at fear and violence. From the Random House website, published in 2002.