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Allah and Yahweh: Alike or Different?

Tue, February 18, 2020
Dinner Program
Jack Miles

God is the central figure in two classic scriptures, the Qur’an and the Bible, each authoritative for hundreds of millions of people. Proceeding not as a theologian but only as a literary critic, and requiring only the willing and temporary suspension of disbelief, Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize winning author, MacArthur Fellow, and professor of English and religious studies at UCI, compares iconic episodes and characters—Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and others—in the two scriptures and explores objectively how the stories are told and the characters characterized, up to and including the divine character.

Jack Miles, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Religious Studies at the University of California, Irvine, has written on religion, politics, and culture for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The World Post and many other publications. His book “God: A Biography” won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996. “The Norton Anthology of World Religions,” of which he was general editor, was published in 2014 in hardcover and in 2015 in a six-volume paperback edition. A MacArthur Fellow during the years 2003-2007, he is most recently the author of “God in the Qur’an” (2018) and “Religion As We Know It: An Origin Story” (2019).

Professor Jack Miles's Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored with funding from the Open Academy at CMC.

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