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Pp. 342, color illustrations. “By means of 257 talking points that plot out a line of argument, rather than a traditional narrative arc, he attempts a portrait of God. He asks questions about God and comments on the God that appears in various guises in the sacred books of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Qur’an, as well as in the writings of mystics and prophets. Among specific topics, he discusses Adam and Eve, the Tree of Knowledge, Cain and Abel, the virgin birth, the corporeal nature of God, celestial laughter, the Ten Commandments, the Muslim conception of Jesus, temptation, Friedrich Nietzsche, and much more. The resulting dialectic about the nature of God is fascinating, provocative.”