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Does God Evolve? Bible Stories You’ve Never Heard Before
Through close readings of overlooked tales and new angles on well-known ones, Lori Miles opens up paths through the Bible that you’ve never seen before.
Uncovering the tracks of the Divine, she probes deeply into God’s statements and silences, revealing a gripping saga of oscillating progressions and regressions, in such stories as:
- The Garden of Eden and the Curiosity Tree
- The magic chest, surmounted by two golden statues of angels, and a seat for God to sit on
- Esau as overlooked First Saint in the Bible
Weaving her magical way through back roads and undiscovered trails in the Good Book, Miles also champions those down-and-out creatures who have normally lived only on the margins of our consciousness:
- Hagar and her young son Ishmael, cast out from Abraham’s tent onto the vast nothingness of the barren desert
- That Much-Maligned Caller-Up-of-the-Dead, the Witch of Endor
- King David’s long-suffering wife Michal--who is “married to the mob"
Traversing biblical landscapes and seeking out the shifting lairs of the divine, Miles opens up a world with stubbornness, tragedy, and even humor. Her sum-up: “God needs us as much as we need Him; I think God is looking for a new kind of covenant with us.”
After diving into these fresh pages, you will never read the Bible with quite the same eyes again.
Uncovering the tracks of the Divine, she probes deeply into God’s statements and silences, revealing a gripping saga of oscillating progressions and regressions, in such stories as:
- The Garden of Eden and the Curiosity Tree
- The magic chest, surmounted by two golden statues of angels, and a seat for God to sit on
- Esau as overlooked First Saint in the Bible
Weaving her magical way through back roads and undiscovered trails in the Good Book, Miles also champions those down-and-out creatures who have normally lived only on the margins of our consciousness:
- Hagar and her young son Ishmael, cast out from Abraham’s tent onto the vast nothingness of the barren desert
- That Much-Maligned Caller-Up-of-the-Dead, the Witch of Endor
- King David’s long-suffering wife Michal--who is “married to the mob"
Traversing biblical landscapes and seeking out the shifting lairs of the divine, Miles opens up a world with stubbornness, tragedy, and even humor. Her sum-up: “God needs us as much as we need Him; I think God is looking for a new kind of covenant with us.”
After diving into these fresh pages, you will never read the Bible with quite the same eyes again.
190 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 1, 2014
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