Jack Miles

Jack Miles is professor emeritus of English and religious studies at the University of California, Irvine. A former Jesuit, he is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning God: A Biography (1995).

God’s Body Up Close

Francesca Stavrakopolou’s new book interprets biblical references to God’s body....

JACK MILES

RELIGION

A Feast for Polymaths: Jack Miles on Gabriel Said Reynolds’s “The Qur’an and the Bible”

"The Qur’ān and the Bible" is a stunningly learned work, but its intended readers can only be those as polymathic as Gabriel Said Reynolds himself....

JACK MILES

RELIGION

Inventing the Pogrom: Assigning Meaning to the Kishinev Massacre

How the word “pogrom” became one of the surprisingly few Russian words that have ever made it into English....

JACK MILES

RELIGION

HISTORY